Word: descent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twenty-one-year-old Johnny Lattner has lived most of his life in a German-Irish neighborhood on Chicago's far west side. Johnny, who is of German-Irish descent himself, was a gangling, sensitive boy until he was ten or so: "I was sort of a sissy, I guess. But my pa wouldn't break up a fight if he saw me in it. He wanted me to learn." Johnny learned, and football taught him. When Johnny was in the sixth grade, his father gave him a helmet, and. like other millions of American youngsters, Johnny soon...
...heavy curtain of secrecy which annually falls at Soldiers Field several days before the Yale game, forcing writers to twiddle their thumbs in Dillon Field House instead of freezing their hands outside by the Stadium, will descent today and tomorrow as the varsity prepares for Princeton...
...only $5,700 to spend), the dressmaker had cut his original specifications from 22 to 15 new garments, but he obligingly helped make over some of the Queen's old things, and even agreed to lend her a fur coat. After all, Desses is of Greek descent himself, as well as an old friend of the Queen. The final collection included a dozen hats and a dozen pairs of shoes, but Desses was far from pleased with the meager turnout. "I just don't know how she'll manage," he sighed...
...last week, though Mavis had left the Zulus, she had not yet found a haven in Malan's white South Africa. Officials took a dim view of Dr. Botha's "rescue" of the child. Said the local probation officer: "Mavis may not be of pure European descent." The Bothas were told that Mavis might be placed in "an institution for colored girls." For under South Africa's race laws, people who cannot prove their "pure European descent" are judged "colored," however fair their skin, unless they can show they have "habitually associated" with white persons. And Mavis...
...ledge did the rescue party reach him. For 70 hours, with only a few ounces of honey to eat, he had clung to the ledge with frostbitten hands. Veteran Chamonix guides, who hauled Barbacki to safety, thought that Chulliat might have lived had the two men tried the descent roped together. Amateur Climber Barbacki merely said: "I guess I was lucky to stay where...