Word: guards
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reasoned G.O.P. strategists, why be blamed for killing off Acheson when a good many Democrats were working to the same end? Some lame-duck Democratic casualties had already made it plain to Harry Truman that Acheson had hurt their party badly. In the House there was a small rear-guard defense by a loyal handful ("He and his accomplishments will live in history long after the names of his detractors are forgotten," said Missouri's 34-year-old Congressman Richard Boiling, an ex-G.L), but in the Senate, not one Democrat rose last week to defend Acheson...
Thus administered, the draft threw the load onto the reserves and National Guard, predominantly veterans, who had to go when their country called. The reserves couldn't fall back on the mollycoddle collection of exemptions that a softheaded Congress had written into the draft law, and that softhearted draft boards had been ready to apply...
Sophomore Forest Hansen will open at guard for his classmate, Jim, Urdan. Although not a particularly good set-shot, Hansen plays a very aggressive game. He scores most of his points by putting up rebounds, despite the fact that he is less than six feet tall...
...Italy the editors had a choice of conforming to Gen. John C. H. (Courthouse) Lee or being sent up to Trieste on guard duty. However, even the General had to bow to public opinion when news of this throttling came...
Defense, oddly enough, is B.U.'s weakness, according to coach Harry Cleverly. The Terriers lost, through graduation, their first rear guard combination of Walt Anderson and Walt Jurglevich, defensemen, and Ike Bevins, goalie. But five of their first six forwards are veterans; so powerful is the B.U. attack that co-Captain Jack Garrity, top national scorer, centers the second line. The lineup: HARVARD B.U. Richardson g Bradley Burke ld Czarnota Carman rd Folino Preston (C) c Cahoon (C) Marshall rw J. Kelley Kittredge lw Denning