Word: play-by-play
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Meanwhile, College Men in capital letters perused the diagrammatic play-by-play reports of the weekend's football game that were published on Monday mornings. A faculty resolution attacking overemphasis on intercollegiate athletics the year before had not dampened their enthusiasm, and Men in the cheering section were careful to secure crimson handkerchiefs to flourish during the singing of the "Marseillaise...
...Play-by-Play. Sir Arthur's accuser was Professor Leonard R. Palmer, 54, an Oxford philologist whose passion is "digging about and taking a language to pieces." While trying to take to pieces the undeciphered written language of ancient Crete, he became suspicious of Sir Arthur's belief that Knossos was "the most ancient center of civilized life in Greece and with it, of our whole continent." Palmer found what he considered evidence that the stream of culture ran from mainland Greece to Crete-not the other way around...
...Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, of which Sir Arthur had been director, and asked to see his notes. The librarian took him to a basement cupboard where most of the Evans papers were stored. Digging deep, he came upon a ten-volume, richly illustrated daybook giving a meticulous play-by-play account of Sir Arthur's excavation of Knossos. It was written by Duncan Mackenzie, a redhaired Scotsman whom Sir Arthur had hired as his assistant...
World Wide 60 (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). South to the Pole. A play-by-play account of U.S. Task Force 43's Assault on Antarctica. Color...
...Catholic, but I was extremely glad to see the tasteful way in which TIME, Oct. 20 reported the Pope's demise. I think it was disgusting the way others reported it-as if it were a football game or some other play-by-play contest...