Word: dishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead of dinner, Mr. Kintner nightly eats a sandwich-a sandwich which is_ so easily "fixed." How much more appropriate would be a dish of tripe...
...Their Dish of T. Coaching at the University of Maine in 1950, Dave Nelson conceived the winged T, which stations a halfback outside an end for added power and trickery, but uses the traditional two-on-one line blocking of the single wing. Nelson perfected the system at Delaware during the past eight seasons, produced a brand of pounding possession football (his favorite slogan: "Beloved are the bastards that grind it out"), and Delaware has won 53, lost 20, tied...
According to Carle T. Tucker, Director of the Dining Hall Department, officials began to become concerned with the large increase in College use of Harkness after an incident last week during which an undergraduate "overturned a relish dish"--apparently in protest against the rule of no second helpings...
...structure began going up, its exterior proved too much for many critics as well, was dubbed "the snail," an "indigestible hot cross bun," a "wash ing machine." Robert Moses, New York City Parks Commissioner and Metropoli tan Museum ex officio trustee, decided that it looked like "an inverted oatmeal dish." Wright fired back: "It's going to make the Metropolitan Museum look like a Protestant barn." Twenty-one artists signed a round-robin protest charging that Wright's scheme for hanging would throw their canvases askew and the sloping ramp (3%) would provide no level base board...
...joke, critics say, is not only on New York but on the artists whose pictures hang inside what Robert Moses once called "an inverted oatmeal dish." The museum's function, they maintain, has been defeated by the overpowering design; Wright's blindness to all other arts except architecture caused him deliberately to subordinate the hangings to the walls...