Word: sleepers
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Lionel confounded its opponents by frequent use of sleeper plays, Steve Kurzman passing and Ted Berkley on the receiving end. Meanwhile, Bob Campbell sparked the defense with frequent pass interceptions. Opponents scored only one touchdown and three safeties all year...
During her years (1931-45) as Conservative M.P. for Wallsend, Northumberland, Miss Irene Ward found it necessary to make many trips to London. She used to leave the sleeper at King's Cross Station and go straight to the railways-owned Great Northern Hotel for a morning bath and breakfast. Then, like a wet towel flung in her Tory face, came the Socialist government and its nationalization of railways and railway hotels...
...President had hardly got back to Washington from his long Pacific tour before he was on the road again; this time on a sleeper jump to Long Island to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the United Nations. He made no triumphant entry into Manhattan, thus avoiding an official greeting by Acting Mayor Vincent Impellitteri, the backslid Democrat. Instead, his private car, the Ferdinand Magellan, crossed Manhattan Island underground during the night and was sidetracked at Belmont Race Track. At 6:45 the President went out for a fast walk through the neighborhood. He looked rested and relaxed when...
...political prophets, haunted by the memory of 1948, tiptoed into the homestretch of the 1950 election with bated breaths. Party bosses made only the modest kind of claims. Apparently they were afraid that too much optimism might cause party workers to relax. The great looming doubt was the sleeper vote. But some prognosticators put their necks out about 1 inch. Some necks showing...
...inviting bunks. But at high altitude nobody is allowed to "sack out." Reason: an accidental pressure failure would fill the cabin with a frigid blue haze, and the loss of oxygen would kill a man in 30 seconds if he didn't slap on his oxygen mask. A sleeper would be a dead duck. A more earthy problem: the toilet mechanism won't work at high altitude. The most practical makeshift is a bucket, and by unwritten law, the first man who needs it on the flight cleans it after landing. This makes the hours of flight...