Word: stripe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot struck again after they intercepted an Adams' pass on their own 48. A series of straight line plays brought the ball to the one yard stripe and Rossiter again bucked over. Lowell's second conversion boosted the total to 14 points...
Quiet since 1948, 'the Parker House is busy again. Banquets and teas and youth rallies fill the ballrooms, red-faced men in chalk stripe suits, with homburgs and cigars fill the lobby, smoke fills a dozen rooms from the eighth floor up. Across the street, a sound truck blaring MacNamara's Band disturbs the Puritan graves in the Old Granary Burying Ground. The vacant sides of buildings are plastered with candidates faces, and every gutter has a collection of campaign propaganda. It's election time in Boston, again...
Thus there are always twelve men (defense and midfield vs attack and midfield) playing at one end of the field, and six men, lined up like so many drooling spaniels, on the midfield stripe waiting for the tide of play to turn...
...Woof-Woof." Ranged against Williams' side was a vigorous young (34) campaigner of the Tom Dewey stripe, typical of the rising generation in Tory Chairman Lord Woolton's "revivified" party. Anthony Fell's grandfather Sir Anthony had been a Tory M.P. in Britain, but he himself had grown up in New Zealand, scraped an education in state schools and taken his first job on an up-country sheep farm at 12/6 ($2.50) a week. He married a registered nurse who now helps raise their two children in a basement flat...
Saybrook College trotted out on House field number three yesterday afternoon, eager to toy with sixth-place Adams House and prove why it rated second in the Yale football league. But instead, of an adding machine score, the Yalies made it over the end zone stripe just once...