Word: halos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...
Saint Ignatius of Loyola, "the Saint of Will Power," was "crowned with the halo of holiness because he fought for it with all his might." To the mighty organization he founded and led, the Society of Jesus, he bequeathed the rule: to be "all things to all men" in order to win all. Ignatius' disciples-the Jesuit missionaries, diplomats, scientists, economists, lawyers-became the most skilled, determined, and often the most feared religious brotherhood in history...
...sensational model was the "Merry Widow'': a sophisticated cocktail dress in heavy black crepe, with a short clinging skirt, a pink rose to punctuate the waist. It is worn with a black halo hat trailing a waist-length floating black lace scarf. Then there was an evening gown-33 yards of chiffon shading from deep apricot to pale oyster. At these and 46 other fripperies, in the ballroom of the West End's swank Mayfair Hotel, women buyers gasped with pent-up pleasure. It was London's first "non-austerity" style show in six years...
...captured Japanese film, moreover, this little picture gives unusually telling emphasis to the fact that it takes two to make a quarrel. (The Japanese film, incidentally, shows the strong ultraromantic influence of Nazi documentaries, which try by melodramatic low-angling and gauze-and-halo effects to turn human beings into creatures out of a legend.) The film is probably the clearest exposition of the rhythm and strategy of a battle that has yet been put on a screen for laymen. Its deeply moving close: an airman, dead in his shattered plane, is given sea burial...
Soon billboards screamed "Halo Wawa."Seattle newspapers snapped it on the end of news stories. Through the aisles of the Webster-Brinkley plant stalked Chief Yellow Lark, onetime janitor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, in full tribal regalia. His answer to all questions: "Halo Wawa!" Over the central juke-box system into Seattle beer parlors came bugle calls followed by the stern admonition: "Watch your conversation! [Dramatic pause.] Halo Wawa...