Word: powerlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With an enthusiasm rarely shown against non-Ivy opponents, the varsity soccer team crushed a powerless Wesleyan eleven here yesterday, 4 to 0. The Crimson added three last-period goals to Tadgh Sweeney's second-quarter tally in a remarkable surge of scoring power...
...managed only a field goal in losing to a twice-beaten Princeton eleven, 10 to 3. It was the first Tiger victory over a Harvard eleven in ten years. One week later, a nonchalant varsity, with seven first-string players watching Yale play in New Haven, barely edged a powerless Brown squad...
Repeatedly during the 20-minute, standing-up conversation, Warren held clenched fists before him, handcuffed-style, said: "Look, I'm handcuffed, really handcuffed." As Chief Justice, he explained, he could not hold news conferences to refute "lying" stories, was powerless to defend himself. "Have you read the book?" asked Mazo. When Warren admitted that he had only read excerpts in Look magazine and some book reviews, it was Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full...
Though defenders of liberal education are as strongly opposed to subversion as Senator Mundt, who introduced this provision, the "loyalty oath" remains an unattractive monument to misguided patriotism. In the first place, a genuine subversive would have no compunctions about signing such an oath, thereby rendering the provision powerless to fight "overthrow" of our Constitution...
...still being fought. Every schoolboy, guided more by his own temperament than historical fact, still takes sides as a dashing Cavalier or a solid Roundhead-which is perhaps one reason why modern Britain rests its institutions in an all-powerful Parliament but reserves its affections for a powerless monarchy. In Volume II of her great history, which carries on from The King's Peace, Historian C. V. (for Cicely Veronica) Wedgwood touches this national nerve of double loyalty and lets it enliven what would otherwise be dreary years of incessant skirmishes intermixed with interminable diplomatic maneuverings. Only the Cavalier...