Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many travels as a pressagent, he has been known to ford a river or brave localities where the mercury knows no bounds in order to plant a sponsor's name...
...Naval Academy team. But one day, when Navy was being flattened by a beefy, bulldozing squad from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, the little fullback came roaring out of nowhere, slammed the V.P.I. ball carrier so hard that he rocked him over the sideline, off the field, under the bleachers. His name was William Halsey, and they called him "Bull." That was the way he went through life...
...slings and arrows of Britain's Angry Young Men are oft directed at the Establishment, a currently fashionable name for that power elite of England's Top People who went to school and church together and now read the Times, rather offhandedly run the country, and-most important-mysteriously "keep in touch." Tongue in cheek, London's Queen Magazine last week published its own Establishment Chronicle, on the ground that things had changed since the simple old days of the Old Boy Network, whose members were quiet, not flashy, unruffled, unobtrusively powerful, never admitted mistakes, never resigned...
...hanged, a storm of anti-British feeling rose among the Irish in the U.S. just at a time when the British were eager to get the U.S. into World War I on their side. Something had to be done and quickly, the British government decided, to discredit the name of Roger Casement. Soon prominent figures on both sides of the Atlantic began to hear strange tales about Casement's scandalous "black diaries." These, it was slyly suggested, were the most detailed records ever kept about one man's homosexual orgies...
Using the code name "Henry," Morgan played such a convincing game, according to Castro, that Trujillo gave him $78,750 in Miami to buy arms, sent three boatloads of weapons. When the conspirators set a target date for an uprising in Havana, Castro called a halt. The top 40 plotters were summoned to Morgan's home for a "final briefing." Police poured in the doors. Castro himself stepped out of a back room. "What were you going to be minister of?" he sneered at an ashen-faced Havana contractor. Castro's cops jailed 10,000 Cubans, most...