Word: roster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national power, remains content to produce a middling-good football team that winds up near the top of the middling-strong Mid-American Conference each year. But on the coaching lines, Miami alumni assume more stature. In 1958 Miami can boast that it has produced the most glittering roster of winning football coaches in the U.S. The record...
...prose raised over the mummified form of a minor Pharoah of finance named Alfred Eaton. As if by ancient Egyptian custom, Eaton's living tomb is stocked with the appurtenances of his caste and class: tennis rackets, the entrance requirements for Princeton in 1915, a Marmon runabout, a roster of exclusive clubs, a Navy lieutenant's stripes, partnership in a Wall Street banking house, two wives, two mistresses. It is part of Alfred Eaton's tragedy that he cannot unravel these possessions in time to find himself. It is part of Author O'Hara...
...famed sopranos give the Met its glamour, but its roster of first-class male singers provides the backbone. As box-office attractions, none of them can compare with a Callas or Tebaldi, and certainly not one of them commands the fanatical personal devotion Caruso once enjoyed. But their presence at the Metropolitan means the difference between a minor and a major opera house. Among the Met's best...
Then as now, the Met was not an adventurous house: it depended on its unparalleled roster of singers, and while for years it attempted more new works than it does today, most of them met with little immediate success. When it launched La Bohème (with Melba) in 1900, Henry Krehbiel, in the New York Tribune, roundly panned the new opera: "[It] is foul in subject, and fulminant but futile in its music...
...total of 115 oarsmen and 13 coxswains now on the Newell roster, about 90 will remain. Starting Monday, they are to be divided into light and heavy squads and will begin rowing in shells, most of them for the first time...