Word: brande
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grau had picked Prío, his former Labor Minister, to succeed him; he expected that Prío would continue the Grau brand of mild New Dealism. But for a week before the inauguration Habaneras were saying: "Prío will continue the work of the vie jo [old man]-till noon, Oct. 10." Nobody had to tell Prío that Grau's popularity had slipped, that Cubans wanted a change in the way their government...
Olivet had a brand-new president, cigar-puffing Aubrey L. Ashby, 62, a onetime vice president and general counsel of NBC, and no man to tolerate academic nonsense. He had grave doubts about Olivet's tutorial system, in which Akeley had been a leader. Said he: "A college is like a business-plus . . . When you defy constituted authority, all you have left is anarchy. Student expression has been allowed to run wild here over a period of years. We're not against student expression, but it must run through channels." And faculty critics were worse...
...Cadets traditionally play a rough brand of soccer, usually going for the man rather than the ball. The Crimson was ready for them this time, however, and as a result Amry was hard hit by injuries...
Back in 1946, the United Nations decided that they had seen enough of Franco's peculiar brand of savagery. His government, they said, was the essence of German and Italian fascism and the U.N. passed a resolution advising its members to withdraw their diplomatic missions. The object of this was either to tame Franco or bounce him out of Spain. It failed miserably. Great Britain, looking ahead to the day when Gibraltar would be vulnerable, signed a trade agreement with the dictator, and the United States was afraid that Spain would be consumed by Civil War if Franco left...
After smothering the Eliot attack for the first half, Lowell passed its way to a 6 to 6 tie minutes after the first Elephant tally, with Fred Donahue rushing it over. Bellboy John Goldsmith snaked the center all afternoon and pulled the secondary forward with a shifty brand of ball carrying...