Word: zeke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They do things big on The Coast--and fast. Chicago fans suffered patiently for 40 years waiting for their Sox to make the Series. They endured the dog days of August when Luke Appling, Zeke Bonura & Co. played the St. Louis Browns for weeks on end. They measured victory by defeat--a 6-5 loss to the Senators was a good...
Guard: Roger Duone ("Zeke") Smith, 21, Auburn; 6 ft. 2 in., 215 lbs. Junior. Major: education. Alert, fast, hard charger; eyed as another good pro linebacker, considered by some scouts the best lineman...
Cord was not the only one to make a killing on the deal. The claims had been discovered in 1953 by a La Sal, Utah ranch foreman named Zeke Johnson, whose son Jimmy was one of Steen's first miners. Steen, short of cash, had asked Jimmy Johnson to find a camp cook, and Jimmy talked his mother into taking on the job. In return, Steen gratefully told the Johnsons to look over some promising rock formations ten miles north of Mi Vida. Zeke Johnson did, and staked out his claims. They were so promising that Cord...
...half their fines immediately or go to jail. They paid. Meantime, Saul Allen, returning to his office, found waiting on his desk the latest postcard from Big Joe. "Dear Saul: Just a card to let you know that I just arrived here from Atlanta, Ga. Spoke to Zeke Williams there, and he told me he is sending you what he owes for tickets. I also spoke to other boys, and they promised to do the same thing." On the face of the card was a handsome photograph of Florida's Hialeah race track...
...Miami, led by Georgia's Zeke Bratkowski, who set up all three touchdowns, the Southern college all-stars beat the North, 20-0. In Montgomery, Ala., making the Southern sweep complete, the Grays beat the Blues, 40-20, the eleventh time in 15 meetings that the Southerners have...