Word: starter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crim, lsat year's starter at fullback, should retain the top spot again, but he'll be pressed by bruising junior Tom Miller...
...techniques have shown in the mental hospital justifies their being tried out in every other area." In his more whimsical moments, Azrin likes to think that behavior therapy will eventually follow the paradigm of progress once proposed by Charles F. Kettering, inventor of the first successful electric automobile self-starter. "First they tell you you're wrong, and they can prove it," said Kettering. "Then they tell you you're right, but it's not important. Then they tell you it's important, but they've known it for years...
Later, in the Army, and afterwards, working in a paint factory, he saves his earnings to bet the horses. He spends all his spare hours on handicapping systems or figuring ways to beat the odds. Friends help. Nick Carter, a paint labeler, explains to him: "Never bet a slow starter from an inside post position in a sprint." Mulligan, a caricature Irishman who is handicap expert for the International News Service, instructs him in the folly of following "expert" advice-by not putting money down on his own published selections. "Do you think anybody who knows what...
Against the Indians, Harvard hitters walloped starter Glen Culbertson for six runs and six hits, including triples by Bill Kelly and Turco in the first inning. Dartmouth tagged southpaw J. C. Nickens for five runs in as many innings and tied the game in the seventh...
Yale then called upon right-hander Bob Wright, who held Harvard to a mere single in the final four innings. Meanwhile, starter Kalinoskl threw home run pitches to Bernie Sowley and Bob Bayless to narrow the lead to 7-6 in the ninth. With the tying run on second and Brian Dowling dreaming of comeback victories, Dorwart came in to fire a called third strike past the Bulldog's Bob Small...