Word: manship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same stewardess had been chatting with a handsome executive in the seat in front of me. Both of them had relatives who had been in the Air Force, and they were swapping stories about how many times their fathers had been shot down. With a touch of one-ups-manship, the exec finally ended the conversation by describing how his father had been killed in the Korean War. The stewardess shook her head knowingly and looked back at me. She obviously had my number...
...times the answer had been no, and with each experience her feelings about her involvement in the protest had changed. Her embarrassment had given way to the feeling that those with whom she dealt should be embarrassed. The sense of playing games and the attitude of one-ups-manship had given way to the feeling of urgency. Perhaps, she thought, her friends would argue against the importance of her work, but now it was important...
Rugby tradition dictates that sports-manship and self-control are as necessary to a rugger as are good wind and sturdy legs. Talking in the scrum, profanity, and protesting a referee's decision are not tolerated...
...show offers many Peales, Copleys, Eakinses and Stuarts, a delightful Epstein bust of John Dewey and a droll Manship version of John D. Rockefeller. But artistically, the exhibition as a whole is unfortunately at least 50% junk. In their zeal to obtain a painted likeness of every last historical figure, the directors of the exhibition have been forced to fall back upon dozens of oil portraits that are either pitifully inept, cloyingly sentimental, or else the sort of sycophantic banalities that normally decorate board rooms and government antechambers...
Traditional Harvard ideas of sports-manship were shattered yesterday as four House teams, victory assured, continued to pour points on their opponents...