Word: tearful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wherever they happened to be, 2,000 homecoming grads gathered at Ann Arbor that night for a farewell banquet to 69-year-old Fielding H. ("Hurry-Up") Yost, Michigan's Grand Old Man, who will retire next spring after 40 years as football coach and athletic director. Through tear-dimmed eyes, they reminisced about Yost's immortal point-a-minute footballers who, during the first five years of the century, lost only one game out of 57, rolled up 2,821 points to their opponents' 42; the 13 All-Americans he turned out in 25 years...
...Killer whales, 25 to 30 ft. long, are the wolves of the sea. Dr. Andrews had heard that killers relish the tongues of other and bigger whales, often tear them out alive. He never believed it until he saw it done. Off the coast of Korea, a pack of killers bore down on a herd of California grey whales, which are about 50 ft. long. The greys were paralyzed with terror. "I watched a grey whale turn on its back with flippers outspread and lie helpless at the surface. Rushing at full speed, a killer put his nose against...
...people and noise in the city's famed Golden Triangle, where blizzards of torn paper swirled and settled only to swirl up again as new waves of screaming rolled up. Only casualty: a motorcycle policeman hit on the wrist by a telephone book someone had neglected to tear...
Threatened by difficulty in obtaining dies and tools because of defense needs, automakers pushed through the new models with less retooling than usual. Hence, the most striking thing about the '41s is their similarity to the '40s. Streamlining has been carried to new extremes, approaches "tear-dropping" in some cars. But many car buyers will look twice to make sure they are not at last year's show. Most radiator grilles, hoods, fenders and tops are little changed. Externally, the biggest change is a superabundance of "gingerbread." The new cars glitter with chromium, nickel, even golden bronze...
...laymen in America stand unequivocally on the liberal side. In fact, the Columbia president is so far out of line we wonder if, according to his own reasoning, he should not 'in ordinary self-respect' resign. If 'to use the prestige of a university relationship to undermine or to tear down the foundations of principle upon which alone that university can rest' calls for severance of the university relationship, Dr. Butler has most eloquently condemned himself." The Boston Evening Transcript, for Monday...