Word: aglow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enough to satisfy the most demanding standards. M.I.T.'s freshmen are students who have ranked among the top 1½% on college board math exams; they must carry five subjects, including physics, chemistry and math. The lights in the rooms on M.I.T.'s 115-acre campus remain aglow far into the night, and the M.I.T. student slogan is both a boast and a sigh: "Tech is hell...
...constant football flap. No high school would think of scheduling a game for the time that Vaught's team is playing; anyone who cannot get over to Oxford for the Ole Miss game listens to it over his radio. But every Friday night the state is set aglow from the Gulf to the Tennessee border by the lights of high school games. Towns too poor to have a Confederate memorial are too proud not to have a football field. Says Ole Miss Line Coach Frank ("Bruiser") Kinard: "Most every place manages to throw up a stick...
...Aglow with success, the erratic Premier saved his shocker until the end. "The United Nations has plotted with Kasavubu to overthrow my government and failed," he shouted. "We must demand the immediate withdrawal of all United Nations troops from the Congo...
Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, 72, was all aglow with anticipation. In flying off to Moscow, Christian Democrat Gronchi had overridden the protests of his ministers, had so vexed the Vatican that Italy's Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani had publicly denounced "men of high responsibility in the West" for their readiness "to shake the hand that slapped Christ in the face." But to restless Giovanni Gronchi, who believes in "an opening to the left," the Moscow trip seemed a prime chance to prove his mediating talents and to make Italy something more than just a junior partner...