Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many English rowing enthusiasts felt that this year's Henley would be a real test for English rowing, which traditionally is based on a different style and on shorter and more formal training periods than is American collegiate rowing. Rather than row steadily and then pull to a fast finish, British crews tend to start with a "rush" and try to exhaust their opponents with a fast opening pace...
Although the Crimson fought back mightily, the Praying Colonels held fast and preserved their triumph. Newspapers all over the country were quick to proclaim Centre's win as an upset. As years passed, the story of coach Charlie Moran's little country boys who prayed in the locker room before going out onto the field spread, and the 1921 game became a football legend...
...Moral principles involved have been habitually bruised and disfigured by practical considerations," declared the Council, and "it is difficult to draw any hard and fast lines on moral grounds...
...dangers of phony promotions, the commission has been sending out posters describing the work of boiler-room operators. Now it is preparing 15-and 30-second shorts for radio and TV, warning about stock-market swindlers. Says SEC's Windels: "Fraudulent promoters can do their work so fast that the SEC often cannot stop initial damage. But if the public is warned, then these crooks have far less room to work...
...fast spread of credit cards is based on one main assumption: most people are honest. Last week Joseph Robert Miraglia, 19, a $73-a-week office clerk from Manhattan's Lower East Side, showed what can happen when the assumption happens to be dead wrong. With a credit card and rubber checks cashed on the basis of credit-card identification, Miraglia told police he ran up $10,000 in hotel and travel bills and general high living in the U.S., Canada and Cuba in less than a month. Said Miraglia: "I always wanted to see the world...