Word: tagging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are two ways to enjoy sports: by watching and by playing. To satisfy the watcher, the spectator, the ballplayer is generally called an athlete. In professional sports the avowed purpose is to please the spectator, not the ballplayers. It is natural, then, for the professional to tag opponents in the nose win a baseball, to commit intentional fouls in the hope they will not be seen on the basketball court, etc. The supreme purpose of non-professional sports is the enjoyment of the ballplayers, whether he wins or loses, whether he is talented or not. A simple example...
...role of the conservative is particularly important when we consider his opposite number, the emotional liberal. The liberal of this sort is one whose emotions are stirred when he reads a tag. If the tag says "pro union," he votes for whatever is in the package, whether it helps members of unions...
...attitude of the University in this whole matter is remarkable. Harvard's top officials are perfectly aware that, whether they like it or not, football has come to be the public identification tag on American universities. Harvard put football on a big-time basis--with the first high-pressure coach, the first big stadium, the first "big game"--and now tht other schools have developed this technique far beyond us, Harvard cannot escape at least some of the consequences...
...betray a pitiful lack of experience when you tag as sugary and overripe prose [Novelist A. B. Guthrie Jr.'s], "And it came on toward night, and the sun was down and the fire of its setting dead, and the coyotes were beginning to yip on the hills and the stars to light up, and there was the good smell of aspen smoke in his nose" [TIME...
Adams House touch-football enthusiasts unveiled a fast team at Soldiers Field yesterday when they hung a 42 to 6 tag on a bitter, battling, rugged Lowell six in the opening touch game of the seasons...