Word: balle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...successor, Art Valpey. He looked tired and now and then he smiled a little weakly. While other diners wolfed down huge planks of roast beef and mountainous ice cream and fruit concoctions, he rolled a boiled potato around his plate as though it was something less than a loose ball and made uninspired passes at some specially prepared orange juice he had brought with him from Maryland...
...Bradley, who was convicted for contempt of the Un-American Committee and later evicted from the chairmanship of N.Y.U.'s German department; Carl Marzant, a former agent of the OSS found guilty of making false statements on a government application; and Communist national committee member, Claudia Jones, now on ball pending deportation proceedings...
Taking one last look into his crystal ball, he finds that, "Harvard and Princeton are rounding up most of the schoolboy talent, while Yale sits by, dreaming of the days when the Marine Corps shipped in ready-made players to New Haven..." He is, by the way, a Yale alumnus...
...experiment in international relations, the H-Y-P teams and their Bermudan opponents played amazingly friendly games of rugby, even if American techniques, influenced by football, were occasionally unorthodox for the Britishers. American players tend to carry the ball as in football most of the time, instead of dribbling it with the feet, often the customary English method of advancing the ball down the field. Usually the Crimson players, if they heard the spectators crying "at your feet, Harvard," paid no attention whatsoever and kept on running and twisting with the ball. In the case of Paul Lazzaro...
Harvard looked good in their first game. The Crimson forwards pushed the B.A.A. scrum all over the muddy field, but despite the fact that the American term was consistently gaining possession of the ball in the scrummages, Bermuda took advantage of the breaks, and perhaps won by their better knowledge of the game alone. Most of the Harvard players felt afterward that they might easily have won, and they looked forward in great anticipation to walloping Princeton two days hence...