Word: put
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...from Siberia. One of the most granitic of the "Seven Blocks of Granite" at Fordham in the mid-30s. Lombardi began talking tough to Green Bay the minute he arrived in 1959 to put a backbone into a team that had won just one game the year before. "Green Bay was like Siberia before Lombardi came," says one player. "Other coaches would threaten to send their players here." In the first week of practice, Lombardi yelled so long and loud that he lost his voice. He insisted that injured players run in practice ("You're preparing yourself mentally"), warned...
...Play a Musical Game (Tom Glazer, William Keene, Sally Sweetland, Arthur Malvin; Columbia). This crew, especially the infectiously good-natured Tom Glazer, commands something no parent does-instant obedience. In this superior participation record, children are invited to put their fingers "in the air, in the air," pretend to lead orchestras, and "do a little square dance...
Allsopp's inspiration came when he noticed that the manatees in the Georgetown Botanic Gardens nibbled their pool so clean of weeds that they had to be fed large quantities of grass. So he put two manatees in a weed-grown irrigation canal 22 ft. wide and nearly a mile long. In 17 weeks they had it clear and kept it that way. Allsopp figured that each of the manatees consumed more than 100 lbs. of forage...
Hope & Specifics. If Dr. Blake's plan could be translated into practice, the new church would have 17,800,000 members (see box), approximately equaling the Baptists. According to the best estimates, it would take a minimum of ten years to put the plan into effect. This seemed still a bit hasty to Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft (younger brother of the late Senator Robert A.), who plumped for a slower, looser merger. And Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles, president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, thought the Blake proposal vague...
...council has stayed together-that the glue has had a chance to set. At the same time it is true-both with the foot stool and with the National Council-that there comes a time when the clamps must be taken off and we must have the courage to put the instrument to the full use for which it was fashioned...