Word: stoking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when Davie starts raving about the roadside diner he can buy for $300, and spouting the combination and cash contents of the rickety old safe, Pa Eder-ly's eyes blink without tears. Pretending a fear of robbers, Pa and the family stoke the safe with $300. "Given money, wheedled money, is always back to wheedle again," Pa muses. "With taken money it's a different story; it goes and stays." That night, as the rest huddle sadly near an upstairs window, Davie skedaddles with the loot, goes "to make his million, down the black road...
...Sure," says the All-American. "I can understand why you want to go to Stevens Institute of Technology. You want to be an engineer, but they haven't got any big-time sports there, and if you can get past the entrance exams, you'll have to wash dishes, stoke furnaces and damn near starve to get by. Now, if you come to my place, we'll give you free room, board, and tuition, a good job in the summer and enough spending money so you'll never have to take your girl home in the subway or even...
...years, Harold Stoke found that his reforms did not always win applause. From the start, he aroused some of his deans by taking away their arbitrary right to hire & fire faculty members, and by giving the faculty a louder voice in university affairs. Some Louisianans disliked him because he was a Yankee (his last job: president of the University of New Hampshire), and because he tried to hire professors from outside the state...
...trying to rid L.S.U. of what he called its "candy and cake" atmosphere, President Stoke found himself bogged down in scores of minor squabbles. He had to worry about campus traffic regulations and cutting down the number and speed of student convertibles ("We must decide whether we want to be a university or a country club"). He fought with Athletic Director T. P. ("Red") Heard, who wanted to enlarge the football stadium, while Stoke aimed to put football in its place as "just another university activity...
Last week Harold Stoke, at the end of a failing mission, announced that he was fed up, would resign as of Feb. 1. With brisk efficiency, the board of supervisors picked a new president: Mississippi-born Lieut. General Troy H. Middleton, 61, able wartime commander of the VIII Army Corps in Europe, since 1939 (with time out for war service) L.S.U's comptroller. Harold Stoke's new mission: to take "some time out for battle fatigue," then look for another...