Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of California at Los Angeles had winked at so many regulations that the Bruins were 1) put on three years' probation, 2) forbidden to participate in conference or N.C.A.A. championships, and 3) deprived of their Rose Bowl receipts to the tune of some $80,000. All last year's football players, freshman and varsity alike, lose a year of eligibility unless they can prove that they have not been paid under the table. And because Chancellor Raymond B. Allen did not cooperate with the conference investigation. U.C.L.A. was fined an additional $15,000. Because of the relatively...
Just two weeks earlier the P.C.C. had warmed up by putting the University of Washington on two years' probation and had also taken away the Huskies' Rose Bowl receipts during the punishment period. Ever since, athletes and alumni all over the conference had been breaking out in a rash of righteous confessions. Only U.C.L.A.'s handsome halfback, Ronnie Knox, seemed certain to beat the rap. After ordering Ronnie to quit California for U.C.L.A. two years ago, stepfather Harvey Knox had blown the whistle on Cal's illegal recruiting tricks. And he had been too shrewd...
...chose as his mistress the courtesan Juliette Drouet. In return for his ecstasy, Hugo made Juliette respectable. He confined her to her room (for ten years she was never allowed to leave it except on his arm), and made her sell all her pretty clothes and underwear. "A bowl of food, a kennel and a chain-that is my lot," said Juliette. But she worshiped the grim master who had imposed such a penance upon...
...more frequently captured "the subtlest inflections of sensibility and meaning." In durability and steady growth of craft and vision, he evaded the fate Scott Fitzgerald had in mind when he wrote that there are no second acts in American lives. James's last novels (The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of the Dove) are his best...
...amphibious landings under General Eisenhower during World War II) as "the old Viking admiral." On another day the President entertained Ireland's John A. (for Aloysius) Costello, who identified himself as a "very unimportant Prime Minister of a very important country," and presented his host with a silver bowl full of shamrocks; in return, he received a framed picture...