Word: naming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON is in error on almost all its predictions does not dampen the enthusiasm which attends this yellow journalistic ritual, and again this year other members of the Harvard community may try to pin the tail on the donkey. The CRIMSON will once more hold its oft-acclaimed Name the Honoraries Contest, and this spring the prize will be a slightly used copy of the CRIMSON Telephone Directory--brought up to date by numerous corrections...
...place is so unattractive is the way they study the stranger. On the second day, in the car, one of my cop chums turned to me and said: "You're German, aren't you?" "No," I said. "I'm Irish-English." "Well, what about your middle name?" he said. "You mean 'Goetz?' " I asked. "Yes." So I said I had just a little German in me, and remembered that the only place my middle name appeared was on my passport (I had not used it on my tourist card), which I had locked...
...hand. "Just a minute," he said. "You have been very friendly today. But I have had occasion to read in foreign newspapers, including British papers, articles we consider as not reflecting the truth. If any one of you would like to ask questions that would reflect what I would name-ah-funny ideas about things, I would be glad in answering them...
...finding, they drilled near Robinson, started the heaviest land rush since Texas, and enriched themselves by $8,000,000. In West Texas in 1924, when up-and-down Benedum was close to going broke, he drilled in the shade of a rig that had been blessed in the name of Saint Rita, saint of the impossible. The impossible area was a desert of dunes and cactus, 50 miles from water. On his ninth try there, he struck it; oil came roaring...
...Memoirs, by Charles de Gaulle. The author does not hesitate to take a hero's role or to name his villains in the second volume (1942-44) of his brilliantly written memoirs...