Word: penned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fortnight ago in the "Hog Pen," Rio Grande's dilapidated gymnasium, Bevo ran wild against Ashland (Ky.) Junior College. During the closing five minutes of the game, Coach Oliver shouted instructions to his players, ordering them to foul their opponents deliberately so that Rio Grande could get the ball and "feed" Bevo. Bevo's final total: 116 points, an intercollegiate scoring record for one game...
...With one stroke of his would-be Olympian pen, your reviewer ruled out the best of Hardy, Frost, Yeats, Auden, Millay, E. A. Robinson and many others writing in many languages...
...tastes like rather coarse beef; cat like rabbit, only better." The camp had its rare saints, and one was the Anglican padre, Noel Duckworth. Putting on a winning smile, he would call to some brutish guard: "Come here, you charming little lump of garbage, and buy this perfectly worthless pen." The proceeds always went for food for all prisoners. Day in & day out, the padre conducted an average of three funerals as the men died of dysentery, beriberi, malaria and simple starvation...
...revitalization was swift and sweeping. The Crime's editorial pen was mightier than the Service News's sheathed sword, and other departments of the paper sprung into action under the guidance of the vigorous veterans...
...more than two years. Finally the priest had to show him the door. Furious, Rolfe claimed he had been cheated, joined the staff of a local magazine and filled its columns with vituperations against the priest. What he couldn't get into the paper he put in poison-pen letters that flooded the community. The paper folded; Rolfe went back to London...