Word: honoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Greatest honor that Oberammergau has to offer is the role of Christ, twice played in the '30s by Hotel Proprietor Alois Lang. In 1947, Lang was let off lightly by a de-Nazifi cation court after he had protested that the Nazis had bullied him into joining the party. Last week, the part of Christ went to 37-year-old Anton Preisinger. The change had nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal...
...nervous constriction of the throat reduced him to long spells of involuntary Trappism (during one such spell he spoke to only two people in two years). For the same reason, little food managed to make its way down into his stomach; once, at a banquet given in his honor, he only succeeded in getting down one green pea. Alcohol met with no such obstruction, and flowed down in imposing quantities...
Harvard and Yale, the originators of big time football now fallen by the wayside, meet in the Bowl today. But the mere honor of victory in the 66th renewal of the nation's most famous football rivalry is enough to bring upwards of 60,000 people to New Haven for the game...
...case the result of this contest is just about as unpredictable as the fall of the half-dollar they'll flip at midfield at 1:45 p.m. This is more than a mere football game they play today; it's a matter of institutional honor...
...honor of the Bowlfest and the accompanying stream of displaced Harvard men, a special gridiron edition of the CRIMSON will be distributed free at key points in New Haven. After 9 a.m., copies will be distributed at the Yale Station, all Dining Halls, main entrances to the Old Campus, and the railroad station...