Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...traffic controller hunched over his radarscope one morning last week as he nursed Trans World Airlines' Super Constellation Flight 266 (from Dayton and Columbus) through rain, sleet and snow toward New York's La Guardia Airport. At 10:35 an unexpected blip slid across his scope, and he picked up his microphone to call Flight 266 with unaccustomed urgency...
...football season is ended, more or less, except for Saturday's war games at Philadelphia, and it is all over but the "alls." The Associated Press and similar august bodies, with their usual looks at the press releases and little more, are busy compiling imaginary super-teams on levels from the Ivy League all the way up to the nation as a whole. The CRIMSON, never one to shun exercises in futility, hereby presents its version of the littlest of the Little All-Americans, the All-Ivy football team...
...will, by a series of graduated stages." Koestler erroneously thinks that the "Christian ascetic mortifies his body to hasten its return to dust."* This, he holds, at least has the merit of directness over the yogi's "prodigious detour. He must build up his body into a superefficient, super-sentient instrument of self-annihilation...
Fascinated by the seeming truth that all Crimson athletic managers end up in Who's Who, on Wall St., or in a super air-conditioned office, Henry W. "Eskie" Clark '23 began a survey of Harvard managers, many of whom have already replied with autobiographical notes. (The completed report of the survey will be published in an Alumni Bulletin article next year...
...approach was to stroll alone into barber shops, super markets, and taverns, extend his hand and say "I'm Tom O'Connor running for U.S. Senator." "Could I leave one of these with you?" said the mayor as he dropped a brochure in the hand of the voter. There was very little chit-chat or contact after that. O'Connor was not known by Massachusetts, and his campaign did not expose him much more to the electorate...