Word: keg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Roy Best, 54, keg-shaped, iron-fisted,warden of Colorado's Canon City penitentiary; of a heart attack; near Colorado Springs. A onetime cowpuncher, he took charge of the penitentiary in 1932, quickly became the boy wonder of U.S. wardens. Discarding traditional convicts' stripes, he served good food, set up shops to keep prisoners busy and make the prison pay. Fond of the whip and the lash, he boasted that he was tougher than any convict, two years ago was indicted (but never convicted) for flogging five would-be escapees...
...agreeable, all out week-ends. These two to three day festivities centering around one or more of the thirteen fraternity lodges, have long been the chief means whereby the college is known to the outside world. Hordes of nearby Smith and Mt. Holyoke girls are imported. A keg of beer is tapped upstairs and a smaller keg of gin downstairs. The furniture is removed to avoid breakage. The Amherst man dons his tie, and in the springtime, when the week-ends are the most enjoyable, his bermuda shorts. It is not ususual for 95 percent of the college to take...
...perhaps overly-optimistic to believe that a settlement such as the one outlined here could ever be effected. But the only other solution, a divided Indo-China, would leave Southeast Asia perched atop a political powder keg...
...only of keeping the news of it from the press. 'We want to keep this down,' she pleaded. 'We want no publicity.' And this at a girls' school (enrollment: 3,150), where the situation is described by teachers and students as a 'powder keg,' with girls arming themselves with knives-their own, or cutlery stolen from the school cafeteria...
...NROTC ultimatum is unrealistic; bonds of loyalty in the battle line are quite different from the atmosphere of good feeling created by drinking beer form the same keg. One results from enduring the same ordeals; the other from a chemical loosening of the tongue. Even if the Navy's social theory were correct, compulsory Taffrail membership could hardly boost the Unit's fraternal point score: in years past Taffrail has boasted better than ninety percent membership. With this large percentage of voluntary membership. With this large percentage of voluntary membership, pushing a few apathetic members into the club could only...