Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Except for occasional gigglings on Vag's part as Dr. Splint probed his back and neck with the cold stethescope, all was silence...
Statistics totals after eight games rate the varsity football team comfortably ahead of its opponents in every department except passing. Crimson rushing has been 150 per cent as successful as the other teams'. The totals: H OPP. 125 First Downs 105 1743 Yards Rushing 1032 519 Yards Passing 822 98 Passes Attempted 151 39 Passes Completed 63 9 Had Intercepted 9 42 Punts 42 37.6 Punting Average 34.2 10 Fumbles Lost...
...more than a year before this time. The opening sentence indicates its tenor: "Are the quiz shows rigged?" It points out with reference to a number of quiz shows that there was a great deal of suspicion. It concludes: "The producers seem to be able to control virtually everything except their own fears of losing their audience...
...November. American Motors expects to continue at its present high production rate. Studebaker-Packard also hopes to get by without any cutbacks. General Motors is just about shut down; the company is short all types of steel, has laid off 200,000 production workers and closed down all lines except limited production of Buicks, Corvairs and G.M. trucks and buses. G.M. estimates that it will be six weeks before the closed plants can be reopened, several more weeks before they are up to peak production...
...Devilmaker. In general, Bahian art is the product of humble and nameless artisans. But so potent is Exú that even making his image is rarely undertaken except by direct appointment by the Orixás (gods). Top Bahian devilmaker today is Reginaldo Andrade Costa, 28, a part-time garage mechanic who agreed to make them only when a regal candomblé priestess known as a mãe do santo (mother of the saint) explained that the iron figures were harmless until "blessed." His raw material is scrap iron, but Costa's crudely formed statuettes are striking embodiments...