Word: buds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard the noise or knew a friend who had, but to be really sure a poet had to go by dawn to the side of a Tokyo swamp and sit for three long hours while the pink and white blossoms unfold, waiting tensely for the moment when the bud burst open to the morning light. It took a discerning ear to separate the sound of an opening lotus from the purl of a fish lazily waking to his morning meal or the plip of a dewdrop on a mossy stone...
...like a genuine, festive Class Day existed. But in 1834, some-where, somehow, iced punch came into the Yard, and within the next four years, Senior celebrations had become so bachannalian that President Quincy put a ban on dancing and drinking, thereby threatening to nip Class Day in the bud. But when the actual day arrived, the ladies, who according to some dim nineteenth century logic had previously gone away from the Yard in the afternoon when the real celebrating began, were allowed to remain. Something in the sight of the couples and the sound of the band made President...
...Wanna make a few hundred over the weekend, B,ud, driving a new Buick across the border?" If Bud did, and didn't mind smuggling, he got behind the wheel and purred south. At the border town of Laredo, a tourist card could be bought for $2.10. From Laredo south to Monterrey is only 146 miles over good roads, and at Monterrey a pickup would take the Buick, and sell...
Crimson Coach Jack Barnaby last night indicated that he would send Ted Backe, team ace and captain, along with number five man Bud Ager to the Newport competition. Previous summer commitments of the Varsity's two, three, and four men will prevent their play...
Pole vaulter Bud Lockett was taken to the infirmary after he injured himself clearing 13 feet, and is now on crutches. Deprived of his three shots at 13 feet, 4 inches, he still finished in a triple tie for first, while Owen Torrey tied for fourth at 12 feet...