Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another level, the expose does make political sense. Civil Service has had the effect of freezing a host of Democratic appointees in desirable government jobs. Coming into office after a twenty year famine, the Republicans found themselves faced with a block of civil servants who were, for all practical purposes, irremovable. The FHA probe has served to jar a number of them loose, enabling the Republicans to gain effective control over the agency and pay some pressing patronage debts as well...
Last winter Yale, led by a host of strong middle distance runners, and a group of powerful field event men, edged a surprisingly good B.U. squad by a half a point to win the IC4A title...
...great year in '53 and there will certainly be some slumps from that peak. The Dodgers' main strong-point this season will be a greatly-improved pitching staff, headed by big Don Newcombe, returned from the Army, followed by flashy Carl Erskine, Meyer, Loes, Podres, Roe, and a host of good young pitchers...
...host to 30 guests at two stag dinners at which the main course was chukar, a species of south Asian partridge. Among the guests was Columbia University's Football Coach Lou Little, who first met Dwight Eisenhower in 1924 when Ike was coach of the Fort Meade, Md. football team. Little's expert sizing-up of the President: "Excellent physical condition, looked well and acted like an athlete...
Sears first clashed with the University in 1951 when he charged that "it is about time Harvard clean house" and stop "encouraging and playing host to the Communist Party." He made these statements in a letter protesting Harvard's granting permission for a student-sponsored talk by Osmund Fraenkel, Vice-President of the National Lawyers Guild. He urged the Law School to "take action now to disband" the Harvard Lawyers Guild, then on the School's promises...