Word: checking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star. Maierhoffer ranged all over the field and managed to score the lone Cornell tally on an unstoppable crossing shot at 1:30 of the second period. But for most of the game McIntosh, halfback Charlie Steele, and fullback Tim Morgan kept the Big Red's only hope in check...
Both teams were good field, no hit; both had made a specialty of winning one-run games with deeds of derring-do (the White Sox 35 out of 50; the Dodgers 33 out of 55). The "Dodgers were counting on the strong right arm of Catcher John Roseboro to check Chicago's famed speed on the base paths, and man for man the Dodgers were actually faster than the go-go Sox. One apparent Chicago asset: their pitching staff was well rested, while the Dodgers' was still giddy-eyed and weary-armed after the frantic, final dash...
...profile against a sunrise shining upon clouds of Gallup polls. The picture becomes even more splendid when the Eager John is accompanied by its graceful satellite missile, the Joyful Jacqueline. The Eager John has a tendency to yaw between North and South, which appears at times to check its forward motion. No expense is being spared, however, in correcting these faults, and the familiar hoffa-hoffa-hoffa sound of the Eager John's mighty engines is certain to be heard in the land, one way or another...
...crusading years as a newspaper editor and political reformer, Cafe Filho, who is now 60, never took a dishonest penny. Once, in answer to a bribery attempt, he coolly struck a match to a proffered check. Exiled, jailed, beaten, he became Brazil's Vice President in 1951, and President when Getulio Vargas committed suicide...
...University of Pennsylvania (enrollment: 16,000) last week found a more substantial reward for good teachers than a pat on the back. To each of 20 faculty members, for excellence in undergraduate teaching, went a check for $1,000, reportedly the first such bonus bestowed by a U.S. college or university...