Word: brawne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity crew won the Compton Cup Saturday, but narrowly lost the boat race to the midwestern brawn of the University of Wisconsin...
...legalisms of case books and lectures. So Warner went elsewhere for his mental work outs. In that era of knock-'em-down, drag-'em-out play, the burly (215 Ibs.) undergraduate set out to prove to Cornell and the world that brains mean as much as brawn in winning football games...
George K. Arthur (real name: Arthur G. Brest), dapper, London-born producer of Martin and The Stranger, is an oldtimer in films. He and the late Karl Dane were a popular brain 11. brawn Hollywood comedy team during the silent '205 (The Rookie, All at Sea). His acting career nipped by the transition to sound, Arthur turned promoter, ran a one-man advertising agency...
...week with his ragged associates-the Society of Gallant Men-to flex his muscles on behalf of Zahedi candidates. Tough, rough Shaban, who is called the "Brainless One," came out of Teheran's slums, was once Iran's national wrestling champion. In the past he put his brawn to work for Mohammed Mossadegh, and in his behalf used to sack opposition newspaper offices. Now professing loyalty to Zahedi, the man who threw out Mossadegh, Brainless led his knife-armed toughs on tours of the polling places. Systematically, Brainless pulled voters out of line, searched their pockets...
...errs like most men in assessing reasons for the relatively small number of top women executives in our economy [Jan. 11]. A finger of shame for such old husband's tales as ". . . lack of technical aptitude and muscle power . . . cry . . . gossipy . . . get pregnant, or something." Something, indeed! If brawn were a requisite, most male executives would be disqualified at once. Just ask their doctors-or their wives. Maybe "no man ever takes more than a day away from work to have a baby," but plenty of men take considerably more time over their ulcers or their colds...