Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expanded industrially, the state also found it necessary to broaden its cultural and educational opportunities. After several Northern firms rejected the commission's blandishments simply because they did not want to bring wives and children into a cultural desert, Rockefeller and his associates set out to match Arkansas' industrial revolution with a cultural revolution. They scurried all over the state, sparked community playhouses, libraries, symphony orchestras, opera, even established a commission-sponsored Concert Hall of the Air to broadcast classical music. After losing out on a $100 million Glenn Martin guided-missiles plant because Arkansas lacked technical schools...
...good ("We're on to a good thing here, and for Christ's sake let's enjoy it"), but it is not good enough. They are perpetually in hock to the merchants, forever struggling to make the frayed ends of their tropical pants match their sahib status. Furthermore, there is the new look in colonial policy: Asiatics have become Asians, and Malayan, Eurasian, Chinese or Indian can get away with murder while the British must punish themselves for the smallest conversational indiscretion...
MacVeagh also played an excellent match when he defeated Navy's fifthseeded player. Tom Clark in the round of sixteen, 15-11, 17-15, 12-15, 17-15. In the quarterfinals, MacVeagh bowed to Hoehn...
There was never any doubt about the varsity match. At the end of the first round, the Crimson led 8 to 1--the only loss being in foil. In the second round, the varsity dropped another foil bout, but went on to pick up six more wins and the match, as the score went to 14 to 4. A win in foil, three in sabre, and two in epee brought the Crimson total to 20 in the final round...
...Crimson captain was slightly off his game, but after some slight initial difficulties with Griffiths' crushing smash service in the first game, he was in complete control of the match. It was a perfect example of touch, power and court control overcoming the pure power game...