Word: famous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...argued that Airman Crommelin was famous as a flyer and fighting man, and that Crommelin's impetuous and reckless revolt against civilian control had made him the darling of half the officers in the service. It seemed quite possible that a court-martial might make him both a hero and a martyr. It was certain to stir up new publicity (Lieut. Commander Walter Winchell, U.S.N.R., had rushed a New York lawyer to Washington to defend Crommelin...
Harvard and Yale, the originators of big time football now fallen by the wayside, meet in the Bowl today. But the mere honor of victory in the 66th renewal of the nation's most famous football rivalry is enough to bring upwards of 60,000 people to New Haven for the game...
Squeezed into the program somewhere, the Elis' famous Whiffenpoofs will also stretch their vocal cords...
Unfortunately, the war and its aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...
...father, a famous Yugoslavian doctor, was taken to Vienna in that year, and soon afterwards Yarmakov and his mother went to join him. Yermakov worked in a factory in Vienna...