Word: tiff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jinxed Eddie Stanky (fined $50 for a tiff with Umpire Scotty Robb) before your cover story on the Cardinal manager hit the streets...
...current tiff between the NCAA and the Educational Council over the seven-point program issued Saturday has no theoretical bearing on Harvard's stand on sports policies. The Ivy Group has been considering banning out-of-season sports ever since Yale announced its dropping of spring football, and the Ivies can make their own conference rules as strict as they want. Bowl game appearances, for example, have long been prohibited to Ivy Group schools...
DeGuglielmo in the fall of 1950 defended the Lampoon in its court tiff with Cambridge police...
...Dearborn (pop. 94,530), on the western edge of Detroit, irrepressible Orville L. ("Little Orvie") Hubbard has managed to obey almost every impulse that has popped into his head. It has not always led to the happiest results. His wife, for instance, once complained publicly that in a domestic tiff he had belabored her with a blackjack. The sheriff of Wayne County tried to jug him for not paying a $7,500 libel judgment, thus forcing him to set up a temporary government in exile at Windsor, Ont. (TIME, Aug. 21). And finally, a recall group began working...
Probably the first General Court-Harvard tiff occurred in 1659 when the legislature stopped a proposed College printing of Thomas a Kempis' "Imitations of Christ," a book which the lawmakers considered "unsafe to be infused among the people." Forty years later the legislators ordered a religious test of Harvard faculty and students but the Governor, Lord Bellomont, vetoed the scheme...