Word: fanning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sundry tackles from the bench, a footrace between a fan and the police at a Georgia Tech game (the cop tackled him in the end zone), and the efforts of a Chicago gentleman to set up a "mall-order athletic bureau" and recruit athletes from all over the country...
Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte (Eleanor Steber, Blanche Thebom, Richard Tucker, Frank Guarrera; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by Fritz Stiedry; Columbia). One of the frothiest librettos in opera, in English adaptation, and clean-cut performances of some of Mozart's most winning tunes. The "official" Met version...
Four thousand people screeched like idiots. A B.U. fan threw his hat at the referee. A Crimson defenseman body-checked the Terrier mascot, disguised as a dog on skates, and knocked him flat on the Arena ice. The band, 11 strong, blew its brains out. A B.U. forward slid into the Crimson cage and had to fight...
...seized power in 1922, Orlando supported him, but broke with Il Duce over the Matteotti murder in 1924. After that he abandoned politics, until in 1935 Mussolini's march into Ethiopia stirred Orlando's nationalism. He reappeared briefly in the political spotlight when he wrote Mussolini a fan letter. Otherwise, as he explained grandly: "The profound oblivion . . . descended on my name [is] the rational necessity of a historical situation imposed by destiny." In 1943, in his eighties, he presented himself to war-battered Sicily as a "heroic symbol" of Italian patriotism...
...agents have been caught infiltrating along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro into Tanganyika Territory, and that a Mau Mau-like society whose slogan is "Kill the Whites and Christians" is growing in the Belgian Congo. With Asia in flames, the Reds are apparently getting ready to fan the fires of revolt in colonial Africa...