Word: norms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Varsity baseball coach Norm Shepard, who is also mentor of junior varsity football, is not able to attend the autumn practice, but captain Al Martin will lead the candidates in daily sessions...
...conspirators would not hesitate to sign them; second, the oath and affidavit single out the academic profession and young students as a group whose loyalty is suspect; third, the affidavit is dangerously vague and demands that applicants for funds must have beliefs that conform to an undefined and variable norm of safe political thinking. Finally, the affidavit and oath serve as dangerous precedent for burdening future governmental aid to education with political strictures. Harvard has rightly decided that these obnoxious features of the loyalty oath preclude acceptance of the government's funds...
...that his was a family tragedy; even the first-act simpering made sense, for it showed a fool-father truly stupid enough to be gulled by his ugly daughters, Regan and Goneril. Then, as the king wandered mad through the storm, deserted by his daughters, the performance departed the norm again. Laughton's king was strangely calm and compelling. Rarely was he moved to the familiar, passion-torn shrieks of other Lears. His fantastic monologues with himself sounded almost conversational: "Let the great Gods, that keep this dreadful pother o'er our heads, find out their enemies...
...first mile of the three-mile grind, Syracuse held the lead, but at the halfway mark, running a stroke under Syracuse, Coach Norm Sonju's Wisconsin eight forged in front. At two miles, Syracuse edged closer. But with a half mile to go, Wisconsin mounted a killing sprint at 39 strokes per minute, coasted home to win by two lengths for its first I.R.A. victory since 1951, when the regatta was held at Marietta, Ohio...
...months, the children had a report card to cheer. New tests of Sam Shepard's eighth-graders showed twice as many (14.8%) ready for top-track high school work next fall. At one school, where only 28% of first-and second-graders were reading at the national norm last June, the rate had soared to 57.2% by January...