Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RIVER AND THE GAUNTLET (385 pp.) S.LA. Marshall-Morrow...
Historian Marshall is at the top of his technique in The River and the Gauntlet, and his official account of the defeat of the U.S. Eighth Army in Korea by the Chinese in November 1950 bears comparison with anything written about Americans in war. Marshall makes some things clear that will have many a U.S. reader trembling. Here was a whole modern army on the move caught completely by surprise, its units scattered, its communications faulty, its foremost elements short of ammunition to fight off a primitive army that could move only at night and on foot. How it happened...
...predicting this year's major league standings: Look to the East. For the last five years, the Eastern teams in each league have consistently walked away with more first division finishes than their midwest cousins. No longer do the Brooks regard a western swing like a run through a gauntlet, to be tried only after fattening up on the Phillies. The Senators and Athletics have been moving...
...Table's guests, as diversified as its donors, have run the gauntlet from English naval officers to Cambridge politicians. Ex-City Manager Atkinson, and Cambridge City Mayor Crane have both come more than once, as well as various distinguished Lowell House alumni who make their presence in Boston known to the House Secretary...
...doctor's degree in most branches of the University, students must run a formidable gauntlet of language tests, theses, and cold-blooded oral examiners. The University has purposely constructed these barriers on the admirable assumption that a doctor's degree from Harvard will only carry distinction if it is hard to obtain. But compared with these rigid standards, the men in the Littauer School's agricultural extension program receive their doctor's degrees almost as a gift...