Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mud-spattered, well-battered Varsity soccer team dropped its second game of the season to a fast Dartmouth eleven by a score of 3 to 0 on Chase Field at Hanover last Saturday. The heavy rain which fell for most of the morning turned the field into something resembling a swamp with the results that players had a difficult time trying to run or handle the slippery, soggy ball...
Apparently the mud was more to the Crimson Freshman team's liking, for after a slow start in the first half, they came back strong in the last two periods and beat the Indian Freshman by the score of 2-0. This makes the sixth win against no defeats for the Yardlings...
More than any other top-flight general in World War II, he was beloved by his troops. He was demanding, but fair: he saw to it that officers looked out for their men. He mixed with the common soldiers in the mud and they respected him. Besides being commander of all U.S. forces in China, Burma and India, he was Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff and commander of all Chinese troops in Burma and India. He was on the same terms with the Chinese G.I. (he spoke efeven Chinese dialects) as with Americans...
...coaches are more specific. Complaint No. 1: Leahy teaches dirty football. This same mud was slung last year at Army's great team, which also played hard, rough football. The last time Notre Dame played Southern California, in 1942, the Irish hit so hard that there were U.S.C. mumblings about breaking off athletic relations. Notre Dame's accusers appear to have forgotten that those who die for dear old Rutgers often try to sell their lives as dearly as possible...
...second place, elections are so easily swung by the floating vote that candidates will employ extreme measures to capture the loyalty of the independent voter. Some speeches this fall will sound like mud-slinging more violent than accurate; others will make you think that the world will explode if whoosis doesn't become the next whatsis. Don't let the fireworks frighten you; as the sociologists would say, they arise from the way the situation is defined...