Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stream of Treasure. Day after day, treasure poured from the mound, which is now known locally as "the mound that lays golden eggs." The biggest bowl, 8 in. high and 6 in. in diameter, shows a bird with animal legs and a mane. Other bowls are lively with prancing unicorns, bulls, rams, eagles, fish, a warrior in chain mail holding two leopards by their necks. The diggers turned up gold jewelry and gold household and toilet articles (ear cleaners, tweezers, needles), stone maceheads, terra-cotta figurines, a marble sword hilt inlaid with gold and lapis lazuli. Said one ragged workman...
...three straight years, the big silver punch bowl belonged to Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor. Perhaps the best all-round shotmaker Australia has ever produced. Sedgman still plays part-time pro tennis, owns a gymnasium and squash courts in Melbourne. McGregor now runs an Adelaide sporting goods store...
...year's team to turn pro, they knew that Hopman was already building for the future. In Miami Beach, Australia's No. 3 junior player, Geoffrey Pollard, a rangy lefthander with a booming serve, whipped U.S. Junior Champion Charles Pasarell in an early round of the Orange Bowl Tournament...
...stupid it seems, after all that work, for the Faculty Council to refuse to send the team to the Rose Bowl. The team was created with the avowed purpose of being the best in the nation; what sense does it make to pull up short? And this decision almost certainly will never be repeated. By Bowl time next year, the Big Ten will probably have signed a pact agreeing to send its champion to Pasadena, and Ohio State will definitely yield to the omniscience of the Big Ten as a whole...
Thus the Council's move was simply a feeble effort to put a respectable face on things. The parallel with the Ivy League is this: it is just as hypocritical for Ohio State to refuse to go to the Rose Bowl as it is for Harvard and the Ivies to say they don't recruit (in the "evil" sense of the word...