Word: lynch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weighing against Sullivan this year will be the tradition that no Cambridge mayor should serve two terms. Though he polled a heavy plurality of the city last November, Sullivan has only one pledged supporter, old-timer John D. Lynch, in the Council...
...Irina B.M. Lynch, instructor in Slavic Languages and Literatures, said that one year's study of Russian would give a student the basic tools of grammar. "He could read scientific material if he was familiar with the subject matter," she declared, "but he would not be prepared for literary reading...
...said Notre Dame's Dick Lynch, "it was a do-or-die game, and we did it." Explained his teammate Nick Pietrosante: "We did it for all the Catholics in Oklahoma (total: about 91,000 in a population...
...shared with Halfback Pat Doyle the joy of bulling for steady yardage through the outcharged Oklahoma line. They brought the ball all the way down to the three-yard line. Then, when the Sooners jammed the middle to stop them, Irish Quarterback Bob Williams pitched out to Halfback Dick Lynch for the game-winning touchdown...
...subtler horrors of war: Lieut. Commander Clinton T. Nash (Fred Clark), a sort of sugar-coated Queeg. This pill is secretly known, to those who have to take him. as "Marblehead" ("And not just because he is bald"). In civilian life Marblehead was a broker (Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Beane), and he got himself a direct commission "without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval training." He compensates for this deficiency by soaking his gold braid in brine whenever the green seems to be wearing off, and by declaring loud and often, in peculiarly defective sailor-Latin...