Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand men of Harvard have long looked to you as the personification of fair play and sportsmanship. Today, two million citizens of Brooklyn dazed, bewildered, almost crushed by the injustice of Leo Durocher's suspension--look to the outside world for leadership. Even Magerkurth in all his Olympian ire never dispatched The Lip to the showers for 154 straight games. That's a lot of ball games, Mr. Bingham...
Novelist Hesse himself wrote from the Olympian vantage point of Switzerland, where he took refuge from the Fatherland in 1912 and where he still lives, now aged 70. He has half a hundred books to his credit and a considerable popularity on the Continent, at least among oldsters...
...Athens' Acropole Palace Hotel, a U.N. commission was hearing witnesses on Greece's imbroglio with her northern neighbors. From Washington came an Olympian statement from Secretary of State Marshall, welcoming Greece's new coalition Government but warning that it must put Greece's chaotic house in order before it could expect more U.S. help...
...Puerto Rican years, of the friends he made and the pounding he took from his enemies ("maliciousness unique even in my experience"), of some of his views on Caribbean policy and on colonial policy in general. A fat, rambling, earnest, occasionally angry, sometimes eloquent book, it is full of Olympian judgments, professional footnotes, diary extracts and side remarks on subjects as remote as the writings of Vincent Sheean or the progress of the Pacific naval war. But the main theme is clearly and realistically developed. It may shock the kind of complacent liberal who assumes that Puerto Rico...
...second time in five weeks, Generalissimo Stalin broke the Olympian silence of the Kremlin and spoke soothingly to the world in reply to 31 questions from U.P. President Hugh Baillie. His main points: 1) tension between Russia and the U.S. is not increasing; 2) Russia has not got the atom bomb; 3) Russia finds the presence of British troops in Greece "unnecessary," is "indifferent" toward the presence of U.S. warships in the Mediterranean; 4) Germany ought to become a political and economic unit...