Word: inners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stadium, hell," an inner voice snorted. "Have you forgotten television? Who's going to sit out in the cold on four-dollar concrete seats when he can see the game in comfort indoors? You'd better catch up on the American Way of Life, buddy. Gridvid is the coming thing, mark my words...
...starting lineup ranged all the way from 135-pound, five-foot-five Oscar Gomiez at right wing to 250-pound six-foot six Ed Blodnick at right inner. Other fugitives from Dunster House's football team, besides Blodnick include 240-pound lineman Pete Hill at left inner and end Gerry Murphy at left full...
...insight to the character of the tough, purposeful Government servant whom Washington remembers-the middleweight of the broken nose, the level gaze, the straight-lined lips and few words. James Forrestal was a man whose mind never put down the burden of responsibility for U.S. military security. His inner conflict was between his intense loyalty to his chiefs and his equally intense concern for the safety of his country. When politics or expediency dictated policies that violated Forrestal's calculations of military necessities, he kept his worries within the official family, obeyed orders, and waited for the next chance...
...Eccentricity is frowned on at Cambridge; at Oxford it is a cult. Poetry nourishes at Oxford; philosophy finds its home in Cambridge. Oxford undergraduates have a certain brilliance; their conversation sparkles; they are intimately concerned with their inner reactions and feelings. Cambridge undergraduates are more concerned with their relations with their fellow men; they get on with the job and leave the devils, or the angels, hidden away inside...
...only a graduating senior. If you ask him he will tell you that it is for a little degree he picked up the summer he spent in Florence. "They simply forced it on me," he will say, "though personally I can't bear that touch of puce on the inner fold...