Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After watching their teams being manhandled by Yale's heralded team and once-disregarded Harvard, the Ivy League coaches found it nearly impossible to predict the winner of this Saturday's game. Most preferred to toss a coin, but Yale was favored by a couple of coaches, while no one felt quite bold enough to favor Harvard...
...particularly good day for Harvard, and a terribly bad one for Dartmouth. The Big Green lost the toss of the coin, and from then on it was downhill...
Flip of the Coin. He found other liberal causes in the '20s-a turn as national publicity director for Robert La Follette's 1924 Progressive Party presidential candidacy, a scholarly and sympathetic history of Mexico, an angry expose of private utility companies' propaganda (The Public Pays) that began a long career of defending public power programs. Later, when F.D.R. came to power, Gruening was appointed to the 1933 Inter-American Conference at Montevideo and helped hammer out the New Deal's Good Neighbor policy. The following year, Roosevelt appointed him to head the Interior Department...
When statehood finally came, he and longtime Congressional Delegate E. L. Bartlett were elected as the state's first U.S. Senators, Gruening becoming the junior by a flip of the coin...
...crest of his popularity. With splendid backing, and complementary arrangements by Don Sebesky and Eumir Deodato, Wes plucks another musical honor for himself. His double-octave runs and honest, single-note phrases illuminate such tunes as the rockish Wind Song, The Other Man's Grass Is Always Greener, Coin' On to Detroit, and convey an especially sweet sadness in Georgia On My Mind...