Word: saxonism
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...Lippy Leo. The onetime raffish rowdy who baited umpires, attacked fans, who was kicked out of baseball for a year, and who snarled the classic line, "Nice guys finish last," suddenly began acting like a politician at a picnic. Instead of bawling out his players in four-letter Anglo-Saxon, Durocher began calling them "my boys." Even in the first dismal weeks of the season, he worked patiently with his stumbling club, coaxing and cajoling them instead of browbeating them in the old Durocher manner, doggedly insisting: "This is my kind of club...
Poems, by Alfred Tennyson (July 24, 1965): "These two elegant volumes . . . present us with the entire title deeds to immortality of one of whom the Anglo-Saxon speaking world has consented to receive as the representative poet of the intellectual...
...piece about "the two great countries [the U.S. and Russia, which] have a common boundary"-i.e., the Diomedes Islands off Alaska. Famed Soviet Historian Eugene Tarle sighs that "my mind can conceive no rational excuse for the highly strained relations that have arisen between the two great Anglo-Saxon powers and the Soviet Union...
Chipper Charley Dressen, a bustling, 52-year-old veteran who salts his peppery chatter with baseball's four-letter Anglo-Saxon, has some sound reasons for his optimism. He has an infield which matches or betters any in either league, both in fielding and hitting, a stable of booming hitters (see box) and, in Roy Campanella, the best catcher in baseball. Though his pitching staff is a little short of reliable starters, it is long on reliefers, especially when handled by Dressen's particular brand of managerial magic-a shrewd combination of coaxing and coercion...
...establishment by the Medical School of a scholarship fund which will be used "preferably" for students of "Angle-Saxon origin" raises important questions of principle and practicality. Though there have been restricted grants and limited scholarships throughout the University's history, Harvard's present policy is to make every effort to persuade donors that their gifts should be unrestricted...