Word: pow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before Provost Buck spoke at the football writer's luncheon on Monday, numerous "inside sources" were predicting the end of intercollegiate football in Cambridge. In fact, many sportswriters suggested that Robert Hall, Yale's athletic director had hurried up to Dinty Moore's restaurant (scene of the weekly pow-wow) to hear Buck deliver the Crimson gridiron obituary...
...comic-strip artist knows, violence is a hard thing to picture convincingly. To make mayhem clear, the comics fall back on such arbitrary and unrealistic conventions as lines trailing from fists, stars suspended at the point of contact, and words like CRASH and POW floating overhead. The Persians were more subtle...
...service was already underway when I arrived. The whole auditorium was filled and everyone was loudly singing a hymn from a printed sheet of lyrics handed out by the ushers. The lady sitting next to me helped me find the right hymn, "There is Wonderworking Pow'r in the Blood of the Lamb." A tousle-haired young man was both directing the singing and accompanying the singers on a trombone. After a few hymns, the collection was taken...
...meant to be: ". . . Apartments for young married vets who have been crowding their in-laws since V-J Day. Average rentals less than $50 a month . . . You don't have to know Joe to get a unit. There are no shenanigans, if you want one ... Priorities: 1) Ex-POW's; 2) Purple Heart Vets; 3) Overseas Vets; 4) Vets; 5) Civilians...