Word: glees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...epithet that penetrates and festers. Arab maps sometimes refer to Israel as "Jewish Occupied Palestine." Russians in the U.N. call Nationalist China delegates the "representatives of the Kuomintang." And for some twelve years since the acrimonious partition of the Indian subcontinent, the Pakistani press, with considered malice and conscientious glee, has called India "Bharat" and referred to Indians as "Bharatis...
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A musical salute to the armed forces, starring Singers Johnny Desmond, John Raitt, Jaye P. Morgan, Ballerina Allegra Kent and the Coast Guard Glee Club. Color...
...Newsroom for the opening meeting of the Crime's first competition of the year. Escape was the keynote, Crimeds told of escape from angry deans, the dull academic routine, and even from Harvard itself. Beer cans hissed and the AP ticker tapped out "pockatapockatapockata" while candidates chortled in festive glee...
...first "reforms" was the establishment of a new marking system, the Scale of Merit. This system sought to place students in their proper academic positions with mathematical certainty: 8 points for attending class, a loss of 16 points for missing Sunday chapel, etc. Quincy himself took Puritanic glee in toting up the figures weekly. The Scale of Merit, however, proved a dismal failure, for it placed a premium upon attendance and not upon learning. Perhaps the system fitted well with Quincy's preconceptions of the ideal college course, which he described as "thorough drilling." Again, the president's personal notions...
...quick-handed Second Baseman Nellie Fox, 31, the best double-play combination in baseball; and Centerfielder Jim Landis, 25, one of the fastest fly chasers in the business. Under Manager Al Lopez' fatherly hand, the hitless-wonder White Sox, young and old alike, scamper the bases with glee, turn so cool in the clutch that they have won 31 of 41 one-run games. Says President Bill Veeck: "We connive, scrounge and hustle to get just one measly run. We can't afford to give any away...