Word: star
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of his house, which is about the biggest of all the big houses on Swiss Avenue. He built three papier-máché camels, 24 sheep, nine shepherds, one cow, and the figures of the Three Wise Men and Mary and the Infant Jesus. He mounted the Star of Bethlehem on a 50-ft. steel mast and built a manger. Then he turned on the lights, and the public-address system put out Christmas carols...
...much to us-was that he forced us into the shame of having to bear the name of German simultaneously with his henchmen. We dare not forget those things that people, for convenience's sake, like to forget. We dare not forget the Nurnberg laws, the Jewish star, the burning of synagogues, the deportation of Jews into foreign lands, misery and death. The gruesome thing about these events is not that they involved the fanaticism of the pogroms . . . The cold gruesomeness of national pedantry, that was the strange German contribution to these events...
...Northeastern broad jumping and high jumping star named Mazzocca will give strong BU and Harvard entries a hard time in these events...
...Star of the meet was Dave Hedberg who swam the 100-yard free style in 53.2 seconds, only 2 seconds away from the pool record for this event. Hedberg's time was better by 5 seconds than the varsity time swum last night...
Last night's game was excellently played by both sides all the way. Brown played as a fast, hard-shooting team, even without the help of its star Canadian center Johnny Casey, who landed in the infirmary at 5 p.m. this afternoon with a bad case of grippe. For the Crimson's part, the forwards passed and skated beautifully, and John Chase played a superb goalie's game, in spite of the seven goals he couldn't stop...