Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes into the second quarter an interception gave Yale the ball at the Harvard 62. The Eli took just four plays to score with fullback Calvin Hill rambling nine yards for the touchdown. Hill was brilliant on the offense and defense all day; his spectacular pass protection blocking must have had Yale's varsity quarterbacks drooling...
Behind Humphrey is a solid backfield consisting of halfbacks Jim Groninger and Court Shevelson, and fullback Don Barrows. None is as spectacular a performer as Leo or Grant, but they are good ball-players. Shevelson, a 5-9 sophomore, has gained 273 yards on 53 carries this year, a 5.1 yard average...
...months ago, in return for help from U.S. and international banks, the government finally agreed to try a little austerity-namely, to hold down wages and straighten out its finances. That only brought new clamors for wage increases, the most spectacular of which was a demand for a 48% boost by bank employees. When the government said no, the leftist National Confederation of Workers-500,000 in all-joined in a crippling general strike that forced the country's ruling nine-man National Council to declare a state of siege, which was not lifted until early this month...
What perhaps was most pathetic about the Morrison and LaPorte suicides was the futility of such attempts at martyrdom. Where dissent is harshly silenced, spectacular means of protest may be needed; within the ample means and methods of U.S. democracy, a human voice means more than a human torch. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once said, "while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly...
...most spectacular journalist in an era of spectacular journalists. He dressed like a dandy and collected famous friends the way a connoisseur collects old masters. He was an addicted gambler who once won $470,000 in a Palm Beach poker game with...