Word: bland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lacrosse in the future. The '62 trio of Watts, Pete Sieglaff, and Woody Spruance dominated varsity lacrosse for three years. On the hockey rink the Class was one of the best groups at the College in the history of the sport. With Jim Dwinell, Bob Bland, Bill Beckett, Dave Morse, Dave Grannis, Chris Norris, Dean Alpine, and Tom Heintzman, its record as freshman was 18-3. The soph-dominated varsity in 1959-60 ended 17-7-1 and second in the Ivy League; in 1960-61, the Junior-dominated team won the title, as the senior-dominated team did this...
...this stuff down people's throats." Men of good will who object to all this sex and violence, he added, are promptly sacked by all three networks. This time, it was ABC-TV's boss Thomas W. Moore who spoke the industry's bland philosophy. "They come and they go," he said, "through revolving doors...
...often accused of being bland or evasive, and if we have a preference for speaking directly, so do our readers. The letters we get, as indicated by the selection we publish each week, are never lacking in forthrightness. "Brickbats for your biased baloney," begins one. And there is no reader so scornful as one whose favorite section got left out one week ("Man can't live by gluten bread alone. Where's the Art section...
Most of the nation's 2,500,000 peptic ulcer victims get a measure of relief from bland diets and from tablets and emulsions that neutralize excess stomach acid. But there are tens of thousands who have been forced to submit to more drastic treatment and have had part of their stomachs cut out. In the future, such radical operations may not be necessary. Dr. Owen H. Wangensteen and his inventive research team at the University of Minnesota Hospitals have devised a method of avoiding operations (gastrectomies) simply by giving the stomach a short, quick dose of deep freezing...
Instant Divorce. In fact, President Ayub left Pakistan little opportunity to do otherwise. Forbidden under martial law to use party labels, most candidates for the 150 seats in Pakistan's new National Assembly campaigned on the bland platform of "identification with the ideology of Pakistan." They were not elected directly by the people but by an elite electorate consisting of 80.000 members of village and town councils-less than one-thousandth of the population-whom Ayub calls "persons of status in their communities." In the average constituency, six candidates vied for only 500 votes. While the electors, or basic...