Word: known
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...paper hatbands urged the selection of the evening's speaker as President of the U.S., and cops sprouted like potted palms. Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had come to town, infecting Houston (pop. 897,600) with a slight case of the disease, symptomized by a rash of extremism, known as Little Rock fever...
...shouted the master of ceremonies one evening last week, as 2,000 residents of Richland (pop. 23,000) gathered to watch a simulated atomic explosion and a bonfire lit by an atomic fuse. Cause for celebration: after 15 years as a company town servicing the big-secret plutonium works known as the Hanford Atomic Project, Richland had voted itself out from under the paternalistic wings of the Atomic Energy Commission and General Electric, prime AEC contractor. And the vote had carried in the face of upcoming difficulties for the town...
...anything remains to be done with alumni recruiting at Harvard, it is to encourage existing Schools and Scholarships Committees to find more "outstanding boys" in more little known high schools. Indications are that abuses elsewhere in the Ivy League, of which Harvard has been accused, may be remedied in the future. Until then, "recruiting" will tend to be a little frenzied, a little unseemly, but entirely justified...
...Brooks emphasized that such changes would not be known definitely until the time of the meet. The varsity will be strong in the breast and backstrokes, with Jim Stanley and Doug McCartney forming a strong nucleus in the former event and Gary Pildner showing himself to be a very improved backstroker...
...Hayes-Bickford, or Hazen's, or the Wursthaus, or Jim's Place and that is what the sign over the door says, for those who do not know any better and read the sign--or the University Restaurant which Hemingway does not go to, but which Fitzgerald was known to prefer, or to the Casablanca, or the Cafe Mozart. The coffee varies; but you get to know what it tastes like in each place...