Word: sticked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living room of a Formosan cottage, incense from a burning joss stick rose fragrantly before an image of Buddha. Opposite, in a wicker chair flanked by two bold parrots, sat one of the most talked about and least known generals in the null century Orient. His long, hard body was encased in the folds of a grey Chinese gown and he jogged on one knee his five-year...
...roly-poly Herman Hickman, as Eli coach, and it was Hall who fully endorsed Herman's beating the bush for athletes. One usually does not expect a mere athletic director to run roughshod over the president of a huge university, but Hall seemed to think that Griswold ought to stick to matters of alumni, faculty, and educational policy. There was very little contact between the president's office and the athletic office. And when Hall wasn't busy trying to push Yale back into the big time he sat at the head of the N.C.A.A. television committee, trying to force...
During the past few years, Harvard and many other schools have watched football deficits near the half million dollar a year mark. There can be no let-up in these figures, unless colleges either recruit players wholesale or stick to a policy of complete amateurism. The teams won't be as good, and fewer people will want to watch them over television stations, but the games will be hard fought between equal opponents. There is no room in this picture for either the N.C.A.A. or any other group trying to coerce colleges into the entertainment business. If Hall's resignation...
...days. Treffery woke up one morning to find his feet frozen. Within minutes the Chinese had him marching again. The Chinese turned the prisoners over to the North Koreans. "The Koreans were worse than the Chinese," found Treffery. "They have no feeling for human beings. They'd stick our men with bayonets and laugh and joke about it." Eighty of 120 made it to Kanggye...
Welcome Home. In Brisbane, Aus tralia, a court ruled that William Marsden was justified in thrashing his nine-year-old son Ian Charles with a stick after the boy announced his father's return from work by shouting: "Here comes Old Baldy...