Word: polos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the H.A.A. first emphasized its slogan, "Athletics For All", in the mid-thirties, and Badminton, Basketball and Polo were all minor sports, a new athletic team began and ended one of the most incredible careers in the University's athletic history...
...caparisoned horsemen and another 5,000 on foot flowed out to Kaduna's racecourse and polo field to parade and maneuver before the Queen. In wave after wave, each gaudier and more dashing than the one before, they marched and charged before the royal box, where their leaders paused to salute, then move on. From a raised pavilion, the Queen accepted the homage of, among others, the Rwang Pam of Birom, the Atta of Igala, the Tor of Tiv, the Och of Idoma and the Etsu Nupe...
...riding a handy, sure-footed grey Arab polo pony. We wheeled and began to gallop . . . Bright flags appeared as if by magic, and I saw arriving from nowhere Emirs on horseback . . . The Dervishes appeared to be ten or twelve deep at the thickest, a great grey mass gleaming with steel. They seemed to be wild with excitement, dancing about on their feet, shaking their spears up and down . . . I found myself surrounded. I fired . . . Three or four men from my troop were missing . . . Trumpets were sounded . . . Two squadrons were dismounted and in a few minutes their fire . . . compelled the Dervishes...
...Bernice Nicholls, wife of a polo-playing industrialist, swore that Broady invited her to his office once to hear a tapped recording of an alleged telephone conversation between her husband and ex-Ecdysiast Ann Corio. When Broady asked her if she would like him to make some more rec ords, she declined because, she said, "I was aware of the situation." (The Nicholls were subsequently reconciled, without Broady's dubious assistance.) ¶ Pepsi-Cola President Alfred N. Steele said that his telephone had been tapped without his permission or knowledge in 1954, when he was having "matrimonial trouble." Steele...
...After a Summer's Stay." Freezing and drizzly, Veterans' Day dawned sluggishly in Denver as Ike arose early, scanned newspapers and prepared to go downstairs for the first time in seven weeks. At 8:25 a.m., wearing a camel's-hair polo coat and soft brown fedora, he stepped smilingly out of Fitzsimons Army Hospital, accompanied by Mamie and her mother, Mrs. Doud. As patients shouted goodbye and flashbulbs popped, Ike entered his limousine and was whisked off to Lowry Air Force Base under an unexpected outburst of sunshine...