Word: tieing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loud at his own bewildering jokes ("What's the matter, sir? Don't you get the point, sir?"), hated to have women in his class ("Damn it all, Mrs. Brown, I wish you weren't here"), liked to announce his quizzes by pulling up his tie like a hangman's noose ("Well, I'm going hang you on Thursday. . . Any questions? ). An incorrigible mangler of names, Uncle Harry once bedeviled a student named Diket with a bewildering succession of near misses: Mr. Siket, Mr Liket, Mr. Ticket, Mr. Rickets, Mr. Fikit, Mr. Spiket, Mr. Icket...
...many a Briton dickered with an old school tie, a high point of the year is the June day when he and his kind flock to Lords cricket grounds to watch the Eton-Harrow match. But last week another Eton-Harrow match was causing comment in London. In the oak-paneled rooms of Eton's drawing schools, 40 framed samples of schoolboy handwriting were competing for first honors in the ancient art of calligraphy...
Cooper, in a string tie and Stetson, rides into town to resume his family's feud with Donald Crisp, the local tobacco tycoon and father of Patricia Neal. Teaming up with Jeff Corey, a Connecticut Yankee inventor of a newfangled cigarette-making machine, Cooper ruins Tycoon Crisp, marries his spirited daughter and displays his growing ruthlessness by flexing his jaw muscles and compressing his lip. Along the way are all the standard climaxes-street fights, a shooting, a suicide, fires, foreclosures and pointless lovers' quarrels. At the end, discovering that power corrupts and that none...
...defeats. Yale finished fifth with five and three. Army, which won the league title, played two more games than the local nine and won them both, finishing with seven victories and two defeats. The Harvard games with Brown and Dartmouth, which could have brought about a league tie, were rained...
...shooting match. Then it is stolen by his brother (Stephen McNally), who is being hunted down by Stewart for the murder of their father. Before the hunt ends, the rifle is lost & found by half a dozen other characters, giving Director Anthony Mann plenty of story line to tie together some classic horse-opera situations. Among the episodes: the scalping of a crooked trader by redskins; a deafening battle between Indians and the U.S. cavalry; the ambush of desperadoes in a burning house; a bank holdup and, finally, an exciting rifle duel on the side of a craggy cliff...