Word: bowle
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...then spent the better part of his 80-hour work week devising the precise, detailed game plan that has become the U.S.C. trademark. The best evidence that McKay's intricate preparation works is his record at U.S.C.: 96 wins, 33 losses; six Pacific Eight Conference titles; five Rose Bowl teams; 23 All-Americas; two Heisman Trophy winners (Mike Garrett and O.J. Simpson); two undefeated seasons; and two national championships...
Explosive I. At Oregon, McKay was a flashy halfback who helped lead his team into the 1949 Cotton Bowl. After graduation he decided that he would not play as a pro and took a $2,800-a-year job as assistant coach at his alma mater. In 1959 he joined the U.S.C. staff. One year later he was named head coach. After two losing seasons, he silenced the protests of U.S.C.'s rabid alumni by sweeping both the 1962 national championship and Coach-of-the-Year honors. The first coach to popularize the explosive I formation, McKay...
...probably force the North to seek some form of cooperation with the South. Hanoi now relies on China for its rice, and that is a position of dependence that the Vietnamese have struggled for centuries to avoid. It would be tempting for the Northerners to import from the rice bowl in the South...
...ingredients of the impending peace no less astonishing today than when they happened. Then there was Peking and the mind-boggling view of Nixon raising his glass to Chou Enlai, a part of the Viet Nam equation, and the scene just a few months later of Nixon eating his bowl of cereal in the Kremlin as he examined yet another pressure point to bring the war to its close...
Wabi is one of the key ideas in traditional Japanese culture. It has to do with spareness, poverty and austerity. A teahouse, made of bare, unlacquered wood, with its straw thatch and river stones, displays wabi. Wabi is the rough, salty irregularity of a classical tea bowl, the plain twig in a flower arrangement, the coarse black cotton of a kimono. Its meaning extends beyond the sphere of aesthetics into a more general discipline; it suggests an uncluttered and precisely lived life in which the individual is brought into a clear relationship with nature and with his society. No matter...