Word: nassaue
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...Princeton University's canny head football coach since 1945; of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. A onetime (class of '25) Tiger gridiron great (fullback on the 1922 "Team of Destiny"), Caldwell stubbornly clung to his modern version of the old-fashioned single-wing formation, brought Old Nassau untied and undefeated elevens in 1950 and 1951, won six Big Three (Harvard-Princeton-Yale) championships in six years (1947-52), was voted 1950's ''coach of the year...
...return to Nassau. He married in 1909 and was divorced in 1912. In emulation of his then favorite authors--London, Kipling, and Conrad--he embarked on a gold-prospecting trip to Honduras...
...extortion in 1954 after a four-year crusade by Long Island's Newsday (for which it won the Pulitzer Prize); of chronic hepatitis; in Mineola, N.Y. A.F.L. Organizer De Koning bullied his way from Local 138 of the International Union of Operating Engineers into a prosperous, politically insured Nassau County kingdom, reputedly decided who could or could not construct a new housing development. Expanding in 1943 to catch some of Roosevelt Raceway's runaway revenue, he raked in kickbacks from nearly everybody, erected the Labor Lyceum, containing a meeting hall, restaurant and Long Island's biggest...
...straw hat, a cross between the U.S. male's straw boater (now enjoying a booming revival) and the Venetian gondolier's wide-brimmed hat. But fashion is as fickle on the beaches as in the salons of Paris. College girls spending their spring vacations in Bermuda and Nassau this year discovered the virtues of the man's straw hat, enthusiastically spread the fad through whole campuses-and delighted straw hat manufacturers. "We were tired of the big straw hats of last year," says one girl, "so we simply picked a smaller, lighter hat. It happened...
...young lady smiled bewitchingly, and the two got up and walked in Vag's direction. The Princeton--true to the Nassau type, a man of hypercontinental suavity--had already wrapped his arm around the other female's waist and was whisking her towards the Charles...