Word: lording
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season), the players have a team spirit like a prep school squad's. Led by Team Captain Lou Saban, the Browns huddle in the dressing room before a game and pray that they will do their best and enjoy the competition. They finish with the Lord's Prayer. It is not on Coach Brown's orders: he is never present at the praying and does not require it. But, says he, "I'm a God-fearing...
When Hearst Artist Frederic Remington, cabled from Cuba in 1897 that "there will be no war," William Randolph Hearst cabled back: "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." Last week the aging (84) Lord of San Simeon was out to prove that his hand had not lost its touch. This time it was not Spain but Russia on which Hearst had declared...
Died. Sidney Webb, Lord Passfield, 88, British economist, pioneer Fabian socialist, onetime Colonial Secretary (1929-31); in Liphook, England. He invented the most uninspiring political slogan of an era-"inevitability of gradualness"-and gave it to the Fabian Society, the gleam-in-the-eye which fathered the British Labor Party. His late wife Beatrice was coauthor with her husband of dozens of dogged, thorough, worthy, dull books and pamphlets. Their crowning work was the 1,174-page Soviet Communism: a New Civilization, which was the most detailed study of the Soviet Government in English, and which completely missed the point...
...script ran true to form at Amherst, Mass., as the undefeated Varsity soccer team passed its way to a 3 to 2 win over the Lord Jeffs last Saturday afternoon...
...minutes before the game ended. Walt Klausson tapped in the last Lord Jeff goal on a pass from Dick Donati, his agile Italian-born left wing...