Word: account
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...connection between the Naval student's loyalty oath and unaffiliated students was found by the HLU leaders in one clause of the oath. The certificate requires NROTC students to describe all relations they have had with certain "subversive" organizations. In this "detailed account" they are also obliged to name all other persons whom they remember were associated with the organizations...
...releasing them to the Press. I want you to know that I do not join in the criticism that you are being subjected to, both by Harvard graduates and the Press, as to your responsibility because of your having hired Arthur Valpey as head coach, and on account of the dismal failure of the 1949 season. I confess that I agreed with your selection of Valpey last year, and believed that, given time, he would make his cycle offense work, and would build up a victorious team this year. Unfortunately, Valpey and his assistants not only did not live...
Here is a rare and remarkable book. The reader can pick it up and read an expose of asylum condition in the London og 1699 or an account of the shooting of John Dillinger in 1934. He can find Alexander Hamilton defending the freedom of the press against the Crown in 1735 or a negro being railroaded in Alabama in 1941. He will find he newspapermen--the good ones--write stories that are as exciting and timely three hundred years after publication as they were when the ink was still...
Waldman's approach to the Button story is typical. He illustrates a routine account with several "human interest" incidents, and, probably because of Buttons proximity, uses more direct quotes than in any other chapter. Like the other articles, this one is well-documented and factually correct. Button was angered at an early ago by the prediction of an impatient teacher, who said he could never learn to be a figure skater. His determination to "show" this teacher ultimately led to his international success...
...author handles his material adequately, albeit not very colorfully. This is noticeable especially in his account of the Olympic games--the facts are all there but they don't make for stimulating reading half a year later. But even with all the right times and batting averages, the book contains several flaws...