Word: eked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after generation of Crimson football players must adjust to the outsize importance of the game. The postwar crop of athletes, as it would appear from reports from other parts of the nation, no longer is willing to shed that last drop of blood in the Homecoming Battle, preferring to eke out a successful record for their team week by week. Locker-room strife at Indiana and Ohio State has been laid to just such indifference of the local "Yale" rivalries. The fact that Dick Harlow, working with much the same type of ex-servicemen, could maintain his team's morale...
...small part of the weekend glory was salvaged for the Crimson by three members of the Debate Council, who trekke down to New Haven to eke out a two-to one victory over the Eli orators Friday evening...
Soon young Alexandra's penmanship was supporting himself, the first of a long succession of mistresses and the best known of his various illegitimate children-Alexandre Dumas fils. Dumas was also trying to eke out his earnings by playwriting. Whenever the baby howled too long, Dumas slammed the future author of The Lady of the Camellias against the bed. "I can still see myself in the air," Dumas fils used to say with a shiver years later...
Seven out of eight firsts were taken by the Decamps, while Leverett managed to eke out one first and four seconds...
...Varsity swimming team over the past weekend. On Saturday night at Philadelphia, the Quakers gave the Ulenmen a tough struggle before bowing 40 to 35, while yesterday at West Point the Cadets took the 400 yard free style relay, which was the final event in the meet, to eke out a 41 to 34 victory...