Word: bowling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Another claimed that he had seen him offered a drink, then bludgeoned on the head from behind. A third had seen the Odikro, unconscious, tied in a chair with a long knife thrust between his jaws. The Odikro's blood trickled down the knife, dripped into a wooden bowl. A fourth said he had been handed the bowl of blood, ordered to paint Sir Ofori's stool with it. As the jurors could see, the stool had been painted. Fitted together, these bits of testimony spelled out the ritual of an ancient, sacrificial funeral rite...
...Columbus, Ohio was the football capital of the U.S. At stake was the Big Nine championship and, just possibly, a California Rose Bowl trip...
Equally unbeaten but twice tied in nine games, the T-minded Trojans of Southern California would provide the home-team opposition. They all but clinched a second straight appearance in the Rose Bowl by crushing California two weeks ago, made it official last week-with 90,019 witnesses -by drubbing U.C.L.A...
...other bowl games: Duke and Alabama in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl; Texas Christian and the Oklahoma Aggies in Dallas' Cotton Bowl; Georgia Tech and Tulsa in Miami's Orange Bowl...
...Baltimore, Mayor Theodore Roosevelt McKeldin juggled a hot potato. He had all but committed the Municipal Stadium (capacity 60,000) to Gene Tunney of Arch Ward & Co. The Meehan interests, headed by big, bluff James Lacy (Lacy Iron & Foundry Works), bellowed that the bowl should go to his group of Baltimoreans, rather than to an out-of-town ex-heavyweight champ. Here, too, the Payne boys seemed to be whistling in the dark...