Word: lockerful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mischief. After a game, fans queue up at locker-room doors just to glimpse or touch the hero who kicked a goal. But where U.S. big-league baseballers make a minimum of $5,000 a year (and on up to $90,000), soccer stars who bring as high as $95,000 when sold on the open market get a top salary of about $56 a week, plus $8 bonuses for every game won. The British encourage their stars to have an off-season job. "It keeps a man out of mischief," said Robert Williamson, a Scottish football official. "It doesn...
Freshman swimming classes are cancelled. Locker use for tennis players is not available...
...fact-finding commission of the Organization of American States flew back to Washington last week with a locker full of documents and depositions. Then, after six hours, the O.A.S. Council announced its findings on the invasion of Costa Rica from Nicaragua (TIME...
...while it looked as though Hal Kopp had escaped the sudden urge to off to Yale. But as well as getting a good line coach, perhaps Hickman thought it might be nice to learn the nuances of the Harvard linemen first hand. Hal got a locker at the Yale field house a week before the season opened...
...only vice, cigarettes, to the limit of chain smoking, he appears perfectly collected. He has a quiet, good word for everyone, and once the game is started, he never raises his voice unless it is to call in a substitute over the roar of the spectators. In the locker room between halves, he also wants quiet. When the boys are at such an emotional pitch, the effect of an exhorting coach can only be harmful, Art feels. This reassuring coolness lasts until the winning team picks up the ball and carries it off the field. Then, and only then...