Word: crew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...privacy scarce, the Clubs might seem ideal locales for entertaining dates. But stern self-imposed rules, plus Dean Watson's knotty chaperoning regulations, have kept the appearances of women in the Clubs to a rarity. Only on special occasions, such as Yale or Princeton football games or one crew race in the spring, may girls be admitted. Abuse of this rule brings heavy penalties--usually club expulsion; this and cheating at cards are considered the cardinal sins of the Club world. (Except at the Porcellian, where card-playing is prohibited for fear that high stakes might cause personal resentment among...
...punch of the 1929 Depression and the founding of the House system, for instance, before which time members usually ate three meals a day in the Club, enjoyed special benefits such as theatre ticket services and private Club railway cars for the Yale football game and crew race, and generally ran up bills of $150 to $200 a month...
...Crew, a three season sport, marked the climax of its fall rowing yesterday with two exciting intra-squad races on the Charles River...
Where Batista's mailed gauntlet was absent, Castro's brass knuckles took over. His gunmen hijacked still another Cubana airliner, this time with seven U.S. nationals aboard, forced it to crash-land in Nipe Bay. Early reports put the dead at 17 of 20 passengers and crew. In the backlands where rebel bands roam more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually...
...pressure on a newspaper. Unhappily, there is some truth in this belief." He insists that no such pressure dislodged him, says that he asked to be relieved. But he notes that his removal coincided with a new Herald Tribune policy of leniency towards Hollywood, and the installation of a crew of Zinsser successors of such benevolence that their critical hearts tend to melt at the movies...