Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Money, No Sex. After the wedding Sol wanted to settle down in The Bronx ("There was a nice apartment there, with a doorman and everything, near Yankee Stadium"), but Yolaine picked the Century on Central Park West. ("I can remember when I was a child," Sol recalled wistfully, "and used to walk in the park and see the Century. That was class. I never expected to live there.") Yolaine's father, Murray Gross, who had made a fortune in brassieres, bought the furniture and wall-to-wall carpeting for their 4 ½room suite...
...ceremony that so moved the world's figure-skating champion began with a fanfare of trumpets. Flags of 32 nations were raised above the rim of the Olympic stadium. Somber Swiss in grey lounge suits snapped to attention. Apple-cheeked Dutchmen bobbed orange tassels on their caps. Prim Japanese in blue blazers stood stiffly with blue-belted Russians and a U.S. contingent that sported red, Russian-style fur hats over their snappy white duffel coats. Uniformed Turks were a solid blob of black...
...Italian hosts had outdone themselves with their new 3,300-seat stadium, aisy-ft. ski-jump tower, 63 miles of ski runs, and 40 mobile kitchens. Perhaps the Italians had organized things too well. Scared away by warnings that hotel space was scant, too many fans stayed home with their television sets. But those who did come found a unique spectacle-one not confined to breakneck competition (see below). The chill of dusk in the Alps, the comfort of yellow lights in windows at that hour, the mountains them selves were a great spectacle to people who had come from...
Leaning low over the blue-white ice of Lake Misurina, the Soviet skater was a study in scowling concentration. Forgotten was the happy camaraderie of stadium ceremony. This was why he had spent bleak, cold years of practice back home at Alma-Ata, this was why he and his Olympic teammates had come to Cortina: to whip the world...
...means the end of the University of Maryland. Rather it may be a second beginning. It may mean a pause in athletics which will give us time to develop more of the academic fundamentals for which the university exists." The Tatum era "was an era in which an inadequate stadium became ultra-adequate ... It was an era in which those academic programs common to other universities were called off at Maryland due to lack of student interest. It was an era in which our accreditation was partially threatened because of an overemphasis on athletic scholarships...