Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...middle of the second period, the game had deteriorated into a name calling exhibition, with the highly amused Harvard fans on one side against a solitary Tufts rooter on the other. When a loose puck flipped off Bob McVey's stick and hit a Tufts player in the face, the Jumbo fan had to be restrained from going out on the ice after the Crimson players...
...sacred cows by the two-man cast of a witty London revue. They warble their uncertain, Oxford-accented way through a series of wandering digressions on the London bus system (A Transport of Delight), the morals of the clubman (Madeira, M'Dear?), the woes of the hi-fi fan ("What do you get? Flutter on your bottom"). They do their best work, Flanders howls, in a snug little house in "an amusing mews," where...
...Jackie Gleason. Kudner topped off its poor TV performance last August, when a closing Buick commercial was injected into the Floyd Patterson-Hurricane Jackson bout just as the referee stopped the fight and before Patterson could be declared winner. After complaints from hundreds of watchers, Ragsdale, himself a boxing fan, apologized for "the inept handling and bad timing of the commercial...
...discussions, has gathered a staff, settled down to do what Ike asked him to do, i.e., help whip the budget into shape, broaden basic research, improve scientific education. He shies away from issuing orders, saves his advice for the President's ear, has already used this influence to fan in the President a more informed interest in scientific projects. Said a White House aide last week: "Science has never before been given that kind of attention at that level." ¶Ohio Republicans, who thought things would start going their way once they got popular Democrat Frank Lausche...
Long before the end-zone seats for the Baltimore Colts-San Francisco Forty Niners football game went on sale last week, one fan camped out in front of the box office. He had a Thermos of coffee, a blanket, and an electric razor. "After I buy my ticket," he explained, "I'll go to a service station and shave. I've got to look presentable for the Forty Niners...