Word: spartan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Between halves, Daugherty had time to reshuffle his forces. When they took the field again, Duffy's Spartans threw a seven-man line at Michigan's tiring Wolverines. State's superior power began to force Wolverine mistakes. Michigan's Sophomore Fullback John Herrnstein tried a jump pass, was rushed and tossed the ball to an interception by Spartan Linebacker Arch Matsos. Minutes later, Spartan Captain Matsko, who had never kicked a field goal in his life, dropped back, took aim, and booted his team into a 3-0 lead...
...opposition leader George Papandreou heatedly declaimed: "The attitude of the British government and Executioner Harding leaves only one answer, an implacable fight for freedom." Disdainfully, E.O.K.A.'s "Dighenis the Leader" (whom the British identify as former Greek army Colonel George Grivas) echoed the classic answer that Leonidas the Spartan reportedly made to Xerxes and his Persian hordes at Thermopylae: "Molon lave" ("Come...
From the day the businessman checks into the health center and is issued his sweat pants until he leaves for home with a plan for daily exercise, he will be under close medical scrutiny and a Spartan regimen laid out by a board of 21 physicians. A 7 a.m. phone call will awaken him for 7:30 breakfast. Then he will bend, stretch, stoop in 30 minutes of calisthenics, plunge into steam and Finnish baths, face up to an "iron virgin"−drenching device which bombards the body with water from high-pressure jets. And after throwing medicine balls, punching...
Former Tankerman Demarest went down to sea in ships along an unusual route. Born 32 years ago on Long Island, he was sent to England for his education by a grandfather who was an ardent Anglophile. The processing began at a Spartan boarding school in Berkshire, where he was drilled with a wooden rifle at sunup by a World War I sergeant major, introduced to Latin at eight and Greek at nine...
...drinker of strong spirits, he swore off hard liquor when war came, would sometimes stretch a glass of beer through a whole evening. In Washington, he lived aboard a ship in the Anacostia River instead of in comfortable quarters with his family, worked hard, savage hours in a small, Spartan office in the Navy Building. He took nonsense from no one, not even his commander in chief, became known as one of the few men in the Government who would resist the charms of Franklin Roosevelt and press relentlessly for the things he wanted...