Word: beaning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greater class, a special B.U. committee had decided, was a nice trophy-something like the Michigan-Minnesota little brown jug or the Indiana-Purdue old oaken bucket. The committee considered and discarded the notion of a totem pole or a big bass drum. Finally someone suggested an oldtime Boston bean pot. Bright B.U. Publicity-man George Wood took over from there...
Almost everybody turned out to the oak-covered slope where a semicircle of seats had been set up. White-bearded, 106-year-old Uncle Harve Sparks, who came over from Bean Fork Hollow, sang a tune in his squeaky voice when the parson introduced him. Tall Scott Partin himself was on hand to reminisce about the old feuding days: "There would be mountain prejudices and it would spread . . . You'd have to go in shootin' and come out loadin...
...lineups: HARVARD TABOR Anderson, g rfb. Leo Rogers, rfb' lfb. Roubsud Buttrick, lfb rhb, Lawrence Willett, rhb chb, Kirkbride Dean, chb lhb, Bean Armstrong, lhb ro, P. Gomes Joyce, re ri, Maunsell Beer, ri of, Browne Pollak, cf li, Knight Vollenweider, ii to, Tassinari Noble, le to, Tassinari...
...last of the wounded were coming out of the valley as the new wave got ready to jump off for the ridge with no name. General Craig came down from the edge of the bean patch and watched the last litters. Finally he walked to a litter going by and touched a badly wounded boy on the shoulder...
...their dying communications system, would have little cause for complaint. He was asking permission to charge one-party business subscribers only $4.50 a month (up from $3), and party-line residential subscribers only $1.75 (instead of $1.50), with a distance surcharge for maintaining those miles of poles running to Bean Station and Joppa...