Word: gamesmanship
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Josiah Quincy was a Puritan in the truest Harvard sense, and mixed his education with political gamesmanship. He served at one time (the Beacon Street era) as a reform mayor of Boston, and was subsequently relegated to Washington's House of Representatives. He was a Federalist...
...made if the departments expressed more interest. So tutors must do as best they can with group tutorials, which are little better than small sections. The only grade which could be derived from group tutorial would be vague, and based on peripheral factors--intelligence of expression and conversational gamesmanship. While such a grade might produce some work it would also bore or even outrage the intelligent student...
Such pre-game gamesmanship recalled the New York Yankees of Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, who pumped batting-practice home runs into the stands like grapeshot before the first World Series game of 1932. Demoralized by the sight, the goggle-eyed Chicago Cubs faded in four straight games. Similarly unnerved by news about the Sooners, the overrated Panthers never got started...
...part of Britain's latest fad, the successor to Gamesmanship and the U and non-U cult. Its name: Eleven-plussery...
...place, Comedian Bob Hope happily hammed up the job of host, and got the tournament off to a relaxed start from which, as usual, it never recovered. When Orchestra Leader Phil Harris outdrove him, Hope glowered at his red-capped, red-socked opponent and tried some freestyle gamesmanship. "You've turned sober on me," he accused Harris darkly...