Word: branded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Faced with the need of finding a better link between Oxford's shopping center and its spreading industrial suburbs to the east, Minister Sandys thrust aside 15 other plans and decided to drive a brand-new road through one of the most sacred academic groves on earth, the Christ Church Meadow...
...rimmed glasses, grown a big mustache. Sometimes for three nights running he would drink four to six quarts of sake at a Tokyo geisha house called the Big Bamboo. He lavished so much money on his favorite geisha and attendant guests that the owner was able to add a brand-new two-story annex. Wrote Shinso's reporter: "I looked around at the rich artistic material used in building the annex, and when I reflected it all had been paid for with the money of poor working people, I felt a cold fury pass down my spine...
Last week 14 brand-new recordings began spinning on Italy's phonographs. Made by such top performers as the two Fasanos, a blonde-brunette sister team, and Singer Carla Boni and the Angelini Orchestra, the tunes were the kind that might be danced to in any cantina, whistled by any office boy. But the lyrics were different. Sang the Fasano sisters to a one-step that sounded something like The Donkey Serenade...
...Gloom. Pitt was obviously unready for the hefty, hopped-up Mountaineers. West Virginia, on the other hand, had been pointing for Pitt since spring. Coach Art ("Pappy") Lewis had taken a raw squad of untried recruits, drilled them ruthlessly, taught them that they must not play Pitt's brand of power football. Instead, he told them, they must move faster, confuse and frustrate the Panthers' possession type of game...
...began to produce the brand of tennis that had made him a gallery favorite all week long. In the quarter-finals the luck of the draw had sent him against quick-tempered Dick Savitt, 29, back in the big time after a four-year layoff. And Savitt had forced him to play the best tennis of his career to pull out the match. As he faced Hoad it seemed improbable that he could be that good again. But he was. Watching him took spectators back to the golden days of prewar tournaments, to Tilden and Vines and Budge, to Perry...