Word: herd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON, which felt it was in close contact with the situation, replied that Harvard "wouldn't exchange one item of its academic prestige for the best All-American football team in history and a herd of newspaper propagandists in the bargain." Even during the fall of 1925 the opinion was still widely held around Cambridge that Stadium was an accessory of the College and not the College of the Stadium...
Forty-one-year-old Woodrow Wilson ("Woody") Herman was back in town -and back on top of the musical heap-with his Third Herd, the most versatile band he has ever...
...obsession that returned him so often to the precarious profession. His first to make jazz was called "The Band that Plays the Blues," which blew its way around a swing-crazy countryside from 1936 until it was broken up by the draft. In 1944 he organized the Herman Herd, the band whose piledriver precision so bemused Composer Igor Stravinsky that he wrote his Ebony Concerto for it. The outfit made Herman the top bandsman in the land. He disbanded it because it left him too little time for wife and daughter-"I just hadda go home, that...
...Senator Joe McCarthy. But in Knoxville, this was not hard to understand. During his working hours, Jenkins is a busy lawyer absorbed in his cases; during weekends, he is a gentleman farmer who likes to roam over his 520 acres on the Little Tennessee River, rejoicing in his herd (150 head) of Herefords. In the fall he never misses a University of Tennessee football game, wears the same lucky green tie to every one. (Says he: "I'd rather go to a Tennessee game without my pants than without that tie.") Aside from the farm and football, his chief...
...other objection is conceivable: that teachers would herd their entire class to the polls on November 2 after thoroughly indoctrinating them with a particular party line. These fears are exaggerated, however; such indoctrination would soon be noticed and reported. Improvements in education and a higher literacy rate have given today's young people knowledge and experience that their predecessors did not have. With schools now stressing the responsibilities of citizenship more than ever before, students should get the opportunity to practice what they are taught...