Word: smithing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like Adam's apple, Wesley's fig has an unforeseen side effect: it is an aphrodisiac. The late naughty-witted Thorne (Turnabout) Smith might have fashioned some of the priapic victories that follow. Countesses, nurses and simple country girls are figtimized. When the secret gets out, it is an affair of church and state. Charges of scandal and nepotism rock the Vatican. After a sly display of irreverence, Author Menen turns soberside to point an improbably tedious moral: "Scientists are, by and large, up to no good . . . We stand in danger of having our lives twisted, our souls...
...match preceding the varsity affair, the Yale Freshman defeated the Yardlings by a 20-11 count. George Doub at 130, Bill Smith at 137 and Tom Owsley at 147 picked up decision victories, while Lee Freeman at 167 wrestled a draw...
...four Yale goals scored from beyond 35 feet. Neither Pratt nor the varsity was ready for the wild attack launched by the Elis from the opening faceoff. Left-wing John Schley fought for the puck along the boards and passed across to center ice, where defenseman Bruce Smith fired Yale's first shot. As Pratt seemed distracted by action along the boards, the 40-foot waist-high blast whistled into the right corner for a goal...
Even before the announcement could be made, the Elis were back in Harvard ice, and when Smith's second shot from exactly the same spot caught the same corner 23 seconds later, the turtle-shaped roof nearly blew off. With a 2-0 score after only 48 seconds, nearly everyone had visions of a Yale rout...
...Elis went ahead again at 1:17 of the second period, again on a 40-foot drive by Smith from center ice nicked into the right corner by Ed McGonagle...