Word: hoist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Panama or Mexico he will be as popular as the classiest matador de toros. The Presidente will invite him to parties, generals will shake his hand, and when he wins the Kentucky Derby, the biggest race of all, his countrymen will drape sweet-smelling flowers around his neck and hoist him to their shoulders and parade him through the streets. If he had not been too busy riding horses in New York last week, Panama's Braulio Baeza, 23, could have had just such a homecoming. Panamanians were woozy with pride. Aboard Chateaugay, Baeza had become the first foreign...
What does it all prove? Nothing except that enough people will tolerate platitudinous writing to hoist another bad book up onto the best-seller list...
...England house, Author Eric Sloane found a wood-backed, leather-bound diary written in 1805 by a 15-year-old boy. Its entries were terse: "June 3-Helped Father build rope hoist to move the water wheel." or "June 26-Father and I sledded the oaks from the woodlot and put them down near the mill." A student of Early American craftsmanship and the author of volumes like The Seasons of America Past and American Barns and Covered Bridges. Sloane took the diary and dressed it out with verbal and graphic sketches, detailing the construction of a whole backwoods farm...
Harvard's Ben Brooks (191 pounds) scored in the only fall in the 15-14 loss, pinning his man with a chicken-wing hoist in 1:41 of the third period. Other Crimson winners were Bob Kolodney at 157, Fred Pereira at 177, and Bob Fastof in the unlimited class...
...when the university receives the Russian ambassador to the UN, University Hall hangs out the American as well as the Soviet and Harvard flags. But where are the stars and stripes when we do not have any such special occasion? I would like to know why Harvard does not hoist the flag every day and proudly too. None of the houses, none of the buildings in the Yard, and, so far as I know, none of the graduate schools...