Word: fraying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Principal Larsh, who quickly agreed that the poems were "unsuitable" and that the book would be withdrawn. When Teacher Russell refused to do so, Alfred S. Roberts, a cheesemaker who heads the Venice Civic Union and devotes himself to ridding Venice of beatniks (TIME, Sept. 14), charged into the fray. What Barbara Jean's father calls the "poetry analogy" quickly vanished from the halls of Venice High School...
...Bishop James A. Pike had challenged Roman Catholic presidential aspirants to speak out on the question of governmental sponsorship of birth-control information for other countries (TIME, Dec. 7), every non-Catholic with a pulpit seemed eager to get a word in. And Bishop Pike himself returned to the fray...
After a rocky first five minutes, the Crimson held an 8-7 lead. Four minutes later, however, the varsity was ahead 22 to 15. The second unit entered the fray shortly thereafter and kept piling it on, building the Crimson margin to 44 to 20 by halftime...
Frustrated by Dunster in the tackle football playoffs, Eliot House quashed the Funsters in a 3-0 soccer championship fray. Alex Lagerudakis led the Eliot booters to a 5-0-3 record. Dunster thus finished second...
After the 1894 game, won by Yale, 12 to 4, the series was suspended for two years as a result of the ill will created by the fray. The CRIMSON charged, "Harvard clearly outplayed her opponent at every point; in team work, in punting and drop-kicking, and, in many cases, in individual playing. Yet Yale, by a combination of good luck, and questionable decisions of the officials of the game, not only defeated Harvard, but had some points to spare..." The contest was marked by a rash of injuries, mostly to Harvard men. Indignation was widespread for a long...