Word: gauntlet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was much hilarity in the ranks, as the students were dragged the gauntlet down the long corridors to the stairwell. Very few of them struggled or resisted in any way save going limp, but they were deliberately hauled down the stairs on their backs and tailbones, arms and wrists were twisted, hair and ears pulled--all to the immense amusement of the Oakland police. And lest anyone think I exaggerate, listen to the cops themselves...
Davenport is a sort of Emerson of economics, eloquently pleading the case for self-reliance, individualism, and a more humane order of things. Last week, appearing before New York's prestigious Economic Club, which has heard such speakers as John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev, Davenport threw down the gauntlet in a speech that, together with his book, is a testimony to what he calls the value of "traditional wisdom." He not only deplores the easy credit, deficit spending and incipient inflation that he sees around him but criticizes many measures that have been welcomed into the mainstream of economic...
...motion escape through waters alive with explosions. "Knowing that the gunners would attempt to correct their fire after each miss," Sharp recalled later, "I decided to chase the fall of the shot." Whenever a shell blew up, he calmly veered toward the geyser. For six miles he ran that gauntlet, brought ship and crew to safety in the open sea, later got a Silver Star for his cool performance...
With this epigram from the unfashionable poet Rudyard Kipling carved in its marble-slathered lobby, the U.S.'s newest museum throws down an elegant gauntlet at the feet of all that has been fashionable in recent art. The challenger is A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, 52, who considers abstract art to be a social menace; the challenge is his new Gallery of Modern Art, which assumes "modern," in the art sense, to mean from 1800 until not too lately. After a series of quite fashionable previews-for the press, social, professional and charity cliques-the long-abuilding museum last...
Gurney wryly picked up the gauntlet by ripping off a 115 m.p.h. lap. Nobody else came close...