Word: joustings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What were the criteria of victory? All was explained on a yellowed sheet of parchment locked within the judges' envelope. Had contestants noted, for example, that "Chocolates," "Elsie," "Parietals," and "Joust" were grossly misspelled? Had they recognized that "Bacterium" is singular, whereas "Cocci" is plural...
...entrance of a young man into the conclave of adult responsibility and pleasure, has its own peculiar, ritualistic aura in all historical periods, in religions, in social and geographic cultures. In a time of pomp and splendor, the sound of trumpets may well have accompanied this transition; a joust, a quest, a courtship, a battle--these were great romantic events which marked the metamorphosis. In modern times, the story of initiation has taken a gloomy turn--it has been painted as an end to innocence, an exposure to squalor or violence, a rude "realistic" shock from which the youth...
...Baker, 62, founder in 1934 and president until his retirement in 1961 of National Airlines, an autocratic Chicagoan who flew his first plane at 16, bulled National from a small mail carrier to the nation's eighth largest line (2,311,000 passengers last year), strong enough to joust with giant Eastern Air Lines on the rich New York-Miami route, where he drummed up trade with the first cut-rate day-coach fares, packaged vacations and scored an impressive coup in 1958 by leasing Boeing 707s from Pan American, thus making National first to fly jets in domestic...
There were not enough hours for Ervin to complete his joust with Bobby. This week they will meet again across the committee table. For how long? Well, smiled Ervin, "it depends on his answers to some of my questions. I haven't got started yet. I've just got through the preamble. Since we're going to be here until Christmas Eve or thereabouts, we can go about this matter with a certain amount of calmness and slowness"-he paused an instant for effect-"and deliberate speed...
...play Benny's living room than any theater on earth. Equally loyal to his TV staff, Benny hasn't hired a new writer for 14 years; he freely acknowledges his large debt to them, and when Fred Allen was once out-talking him in an ad-lib joust, he said testily that if only his writers were with him he could make Allen look silly...