Word: alabama
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington, the Modern Language Association of America accused the
U.S. of having an inordinate bent for hypocorism, i.e., baby talk.
Chief victims of adult hypocorism: 1) children, 2) pets, 3) lovers, 4)
readers of advertising.
Larry Hatch of Washington, Harry Gilmer of Alabama, and Army's Arnold Tucker, all with interceptions, paced the Varsity halfback in total snatches...
...father, Marcus, ostracized by his Alabama townspeople but dominating the town, is as fascinating a character as Playwright Hellman has drawn. Cruel-cold-blooded, with a sardonic wit and a partly pretentious feeling for culture, he cares only, and then half-incestuously, for his daughter Regina. His treatment of his wife, along with her knowledge of his guilty past, has made her a violent hysteric; his contempt for his sons, the power-craving Ben and the spineless Oscar, has made them bitterly hostile. The fiercest struggle is that between Ben and his father. Constantly defeated, at the moment when...
Some 450 alcoholics with colossal hangovers have shuffled a path to the ivied red house on Temple Street which houses Yale's New Haven clinic. By last week, the Yale Plan had started a national movement: at least five states (New Jersey, New Hampshire, Alabama, Oregon, Connecticut) and a dozen cities were studying or organizing similar clinics (Connecticut already had one in operation in Hartford). With the aid of Salvation Army workers, ministers, educators, and Alcoholics Anonymous (24,000 members), Yale was campaigning busily for free medical treatment for the nation's 750,000 chronic alcoholics...
Second in the competition, and therefore the new Jayvee senior manager is Dwight K. Nishimura '49 of Kirkland House and Berkeley, California. He will be in complete charge of the Junior Varsity team for the coming campaign. Like-wise George C. Warren '46 of Winthrop House and Birmingham, Alabama, who placed third, is now the Freshman senior manager for the next year...