Word: perfected
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a scoreless second quarter, the varsity tied the count at 8:35 of the third period on a perfect shot from 10 yards away by inside John Hedreen. Soon after, coach Bruce Munro sent Ekpebu to wing in place of Sweeney and put Keith Lowe at center. With Ekpebu, Sweeney, and Lowe shifting often, the varsity offense picked up noticeably...
Highways South. U.S. aid ($145 million) includes construction of some 500 miles of roads from Kabul south and east to the Pakistan border; although it was not intended that way, the roads will provide the Russians with a perfect network of all-weather highways running from the Oxus to the Khyber Pass, the traditional invasion route into India from the north. U.S. technicians are also working on a huge international airport at Kandahar and have raised dams, like those in the Helmand Valley, to control Afghanistan's seasonal rivers. But, although it is carefully geared to the nation...
...diving shot at the left corner of the Tufts goal, and he nearly scored from a sitting position in the third session after running 10 yards on his hands and knees to reach the ball. He got his second score at 12:35 of the third period, taking a perfect pass from wing Tadgh Sweeney and drilling it into the left side of the nets...
...Braves without a single man reaching first base for 12 innings. But Haddix didn't win. Oh, no. Lew Burdette, hurling for the Braves, gave up 12 hits but didn't allow a run either. In the 13th, Pirate third baseman Don Hoak fumbled an easy grounder, ruining Haddix' perfect game, and Milwaukee's Joe Adcock took care of the rest with a blast over the leftfield fence...
...lumbering DC-4 to give a concert in Bilbao, Spain. Sang Callas: "Unexpected things have happened, and the only remedy is to rise above them." To the disappointment of her Spanish audience, she barely managed to rise above middle C, moved one critic to write: "The Bilbao public demonstrated perfect manners in not showing greater disgust." Then it was back to her sailor-man, who was having something of a crisis himself. "All the fuss" over his choice of a traveling companion, groaned Onassis, was threatening to wreck his marriage (Wife Tina had gone to New York, reportedly...