Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its record in the won and lost column even at one and one, Coach Hal Kopp's jayvee court squad heads for the University of Connecticut tonight for its first away game of the current campaign...
...Ponca City, Olcla., one T. J. Cuzalina, a druggist who writes and pays for an advertising column in the Ponca City News, announced the winner in his recent Eisenhower jingle contest. Druggist Cuzalina, who claims credit for starting the Eisenhower campaign in Oklahoma two years ago, plunked out $100 for the judges' favorite...
They shouted, cheered, and-a rare event in France-whistled. Lena could do no wrong: she even got away with a song in schoolgirl French. After the show, admirers followed her to her dressing room. Next day France Soir splashed a three-column picture of her on Page One, and captioned it: "A triumph."* Would she stay on in France, as Josephine Baker had? Said Lena: "Hell no! I got a family in Brooklyn...
When, in 1936, General Emilio Mola announced that he would capture Madrid because he had four columns outside the city and a fifth column of sympathizers within, the world pounced on the phrase with the eagerness of a man who has been groping for an important word. The world might better have been stunned as by a tocsin of calamity. For what Mola had done was to indicate the dimension of treason in our time...
...Beauty. Occasionally Professor Morison interrupts his hurried pitching of facts to write lovingly of his subject: "A convoy is a beautiful thing. . . . The inner core of stolid merchantmen in column is never equally spaced, for each ship has individuality. . . . Around the column is thrown the screen like a loose-jointed necklace, the beads lunging to port or starboard and then snapping back . . . each destroyer nervous and questing, all eyes topside looking, ears below waterline listening, and radar antennae like cats' whiskers feeling for the enemy...