Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Founding Fathers rejected a popular election for the presidency. ''It would be as unnatural to refer the choice . . . to the people," said Virginia's George Mason, "as it would to refer a trial of colours to a blind man." The Constitutional Convention determined to put the choice in the hands of an elite, struck upon a system of electors that was a compromise between big and small states. Each state would "appoint" a number of electors equal to its total Congressmen and Senators. If no presidential candidate won a clear majority from the electors, the contest would...
...those 30 subs will be some 3,000 of the most highly trained members of the U.S. armed forces, whose dangerous business will be to keep the peace. Their faith in their job is spelled out in the Polaris submariner's variation on a theme by Oliver Cromwell: "Put your trust in the Lord and keep your deterrent mobile...
...masterminds of baseball's American League put their masterminds together in Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel, decided to award their Washington, D.C. franchise to none other than retired Air Force General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 56, now Federal Aviation Administrator. Longtime Baseball Fan Quesada must quit his Government job to organize the club, which will fill the vacancy left when the unwinning Senators team moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul last month. Estimated cost of the franchise: $3,500,000. Says Quesada: "I don't have that, but I've got backers...
...from the Gulf to the Tennessee border by the lights of high school games. Towns too poor to have a Confederate memorial are too proud not to have a football field. Says Ole Miss Line Coach Frank ("Bruiser") Kinard: "Most every place manages to throw up a stick and put a light...
...America Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection of execution, in the blocking and tackling angles of the game." Signs spotted around his office spell out his football philosophy: "Put 'em on the ground...