Word: putridity
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...course, inevitable that somewhere, some time, a radio announcer should be sentenced for crimes against football, but the atrocity when it did come was particularly offensive. It was the application of the term "putrid" to Barry Wood, Harvard captain and quarterback in the Dartmouth game. The banishment of Ted Husing, from Harvard sports as a result was deserved and the radio announcer's explanation of his trespass on good taste merely adds to his culpability...
Radio announcer of that game for Columbia Broadcasting Co. was staccato Edward ("Ted") Husing. Sharing with many football experts an impression that Wood's strategies were not such as could be expected from a Phi Beta Kappa quarterback, Announcer Husing described his play as "putrid." Harvard men wrote letters of protest. Other listeners thought it a particularly flagrant example of two failings common among sports announcers -using words without knowing what they mean, criticizing instead of reporting. Harvard's Athletic Director William Bingham wrote to President William Paley of Columbia Broadcasting Co. to say that Announcer Husing might...
...wood be there but Husing instead as my voice was ruined by putrid predictions." Signed Hu Flung Hucy...
...have passed, and if necessary will pass again, without the slightest hesitation, over the more or less putrid body of the goddess of liberty" (TIME, April...
FASCISM HAS ALREADY STEPPED, AND, IF NEED BE, WILL . . . STEP ONCE MORE, OVER THE MORE OR LESS PUTRID BODY OF THE GODDESS LIBERTY...