Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behalf of the National Highway Users Conference, Mrs. Emily Post, doyenne of U.S. manners, wrote a 46-page treatise called "Motor Manners." Sample mannerisms: "... A gentleman will no more cheat a red light or a stop sign than he would cheat in a game of cards. A courteous lady will not 'scold' others raucously with her automobile horn any more than she would act like a 'fishwife' at a party...
...starved Russian people took quick advantage. Voicemen believe that about 8,000,000 Russians listen regularly to bootlegged news from the West. The reports then flash by grapevine all over the Soviet Union. The Kremlin's answer was jamming. But, says Voiceman Herrick, "jamming is like a chess game." First you make a move. Your opponent makes a move; then you make a countermove...
...television areas by TV's faster, if still less complete, news coverage in pictures. Peacetime had put a big crimp in the popularity won by the war's combat films. But when such ordinarily surefire films as last year's Louis-Walcott fight and Army-Navy game failed to draw heavily, the realists knew the reason...
Crimson freshman lacrosse players rallied in vain in the second half of Saturday's Yale game, to lose 8 to 7. The half time score...
...alert defense held the Eli squad to one point in the second half of the game at Soldiers Field, enabling high scorers Ned Yost, Bob Baldwinfi and Dunc McCallum to close the score...