Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Florida's florid Senator Claude Pepper, a man with an eye for political talent, took a shine to young George Armistead Smathers as soon as he spotted him back in 1938. Smathers, a handsome, athletic law student, had been captain of the University of Florida basketball team and president of the student body. Pepper made him a sort of junior-grade campaign manager, later helped him get a job as an assistant U.S. attorney in Miami...
...second. Captain John Caulfield, a familiar sight to baseball fans in right field, was playing in a little close. In fact he was holding down first as the ball was pegged around the infield. Cliff Crosby, minus the pads, and mask was using a five fingered glove in a pepper game. "He's been playing third," someone told...
...National Progressive Union of the Center had made a surprisingly strong showing. Top man of this group is General Nicholas Plastiras, 67, a hero of the Greco-Turkish war of 1922, in which he was known to the Greeks as "The Black Horseman" and to the Turks as "Black Pepper" (what's left of his raven hair is now white). Plastiras led an antiRoyalist coup in 1922; he intended to execute Prince Andrew, father of Britain's Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, but a British destroyer dashed up and rescued Andrew from Plastiras. Later, Plastiras was deposed and exiled...
...pretty, public nurse who once won a county election with the slogan: "You kiss the babies, I'll put their diapers on." Former Acting Governor Melvin E. Thompson was also in the running early (the Atlanta Constitution commented: "fustest with the leastest."). ¶ In Florida, Senator Claude Pepper was in the fight of his long political life with young (36) Congressman George A. Smathers. A personable war veteran with the backing of conservative money, Smathers centered his attack on Pepper's support of the welfare state and his sponsorship of the Townsend Plan ("a better plan than...
Left wing Bill Timpson converted Shorty Minot's goal-mouth pass at 5:10 for the game's first score. After Arnie Oss, Crimson nemesis who scored five goals in the teams' first meeting, retaliated at 6:45, Harvard began to pepper Dartmouth goalie McMahon...