Word: rottener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rotten." Most coaches played dumb, professed not to know what the General was talking about. Only one, Coach Jess Neely of Rice, conceded that "the General might be right." The black market in footballers was so open that officials from 200 colleges who recently met in Chicago to consider and perhaps deplore it got nowhere. Down in the Southeastern Conference (Mississippi State, Georgia Tech, etc.), where so-called "grants-in-aid" to players are legal, hijacking of players from the two service academies was made not only legal but attractive. Though college football players are usually allowed only three years...
...postwar player grabbers was Navy, which found it hard to go back to old ways. Virginia Military Academy charged that five of its best players, including Lynn Chewning, 1945 all-Southern Conference fullback, had been swiped by Navy. Moaned V.M.I. Coach Allison ("Pooley") Hubert: "It's rotten . . . they walked off with half my team...
...Leningrad, ruled by Politburo Member Andrei Zhdanov, was waging an esthetic purge. Two outstanding literary figures, Poetess Anna Akhmatova and Mikhail Zoshchenko (whom many Russians consider their best short story writer since Chekhov), were barred from all Soviet publications for "decadence" and "rotten lack of ideology." The literary magazine Leningrad was suspended and Zvezda condemned for ignoring "the vital foundation of the Soviet system, its political policy" and "spreading a spirit of obsequiousness to the contemporary bourgeois culture of the West." With obsequious haste, the Leningrad writers' union voted to abandon "the theory of pure art" and, instead, "train...
...situation was most acute in the Pacific. Bases on former Jap-mandated islands, in the Philippines, Ryukyus and Aleutians, were the fruit of great and costly amphibious campaigns. The danger was that this fruit would be rotten before it was ripe...
Died. Colonel François de la Rocque, 53, founder and fiihrer of the fascistic Croix de Feu party which periodically harassed French governments of the '30s; after an operation; in Paris. He inveighed against "rotten parliamentarian-ism," boldly announced his intention to "seize power," but opposed the Nazis...