Word: quieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...appointment of John M. Yovicsin, football coach at Gettysburg College, as the new head coach of football at Harvard, that was considerable surprise and scepticism expressed by various individuals. Yovicsin was a low-pressure type person. He had long since abandoned the glory of professional football for a relatively quiet existence as coach at tiny Gettysburg College. In coming to Harvard, many felt, Yovicsin would find the "big-time" too much to handle. Nothing could have been further from the truth. His low-pressure approach to football and his genuine love of the game appear to have solved the problem...
Yovicsin enjoyed the quiet life of a coach in a small college and settled down in Gettysburg with hopes to stay there a long time. His family liked the area very much and soon moved into a house which Yovicsin planned himself. His salary was excellent, and he was a member of the faculty with tenure. Yet on March 12 of this year he accepted the position of head coach of football at Harvard...
Last week the Middle East's biggest news was negative: for two weeks Nasser had shrieked his loudest to incite the refugees to riot against Jordan's King Hussein, and for two weeks the refugees had ignored him. In Aqabat Jabr the camp was quiet as a mosque at noon. The police force on duty (one sergeant, three enlisted men) snoozed peacefully in the sun. Here and fhere, children played. No one was listening to Gamal Nasser...
Last week Eddie Gein, 51, was the center of one of the century's most gruesome criminal cases?and one of psychiatry's nost extraordinary case histories. He had gone into Plainfield (pop. 680) on a quiet Saturday morning (most of the men were out for the opening of the deer season) and shot Bernice Worden, 58, proprietor of a general store, with a .22 rifle from her own stock. He had loaded the body nto the store's pickup truck, driven it out to his farm. He was finishing a hearty dinner (pork chops, macaroni and cheese, Dickies, coffee...
Last week Goldwyn finally admitted that he had come up against some baffling opposition: a quiet boycott of the movie by what Daily Variety called "top Negro entertainers." Among Negro performers, shrugged Goldwyn, "I have found a certain fear that this play may not be good for their race...