Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simply snagging Crow for the Aggie team was a triumph for Coach Paul ("Bear") Bryant. John Crow had been tripping over college scouts ever since he made the first team at Louisiana's Springhill High School; he had offers of scholarships from Notre Dame to Oklahoma. There was so much activity around the Crow home that N.C.A.A. investigators kept snooping for under-the-table payoffs long after Coach Bryant's bird dogs had carried John David...
Mother's Money. But if bagging Crow was a triumph, losing him seems a tragedy. Bear Bryant, for one, is not even going to stay on at College Station, Texas to find out what football might be like without everybody's All-American. Bear is chucking a contract that has seven $15,000 years to run, and he is hotfooting it for his alma mater, Alabama U. The once mighty Alabamans have been having woeful times on the football field. "Say you heard your mother call," explains Bear Bryant solemnly. "If you thought she wanted...
F.D.R. achieved his greatest college fame in extracurricular activities. "Any chronicle of Roosevelt at Harvard must inevitably bear much outward resemblance to Stover at Yale," Frank Freidel has said, "with its hero ever striving onward and upward from one extracurricular triumph to another...
...cooperate fully with pro-Western Morocco, expressed a readiness to step up economic and military aid. For his part, Mohammed V had shown where his heart lies: his personal gift to the President of the U.S. was a jewel-encrusted saber inscribed with a passage from the Koran: "The triumph comes from God and the victory is at hand...
Retirement in Triumph. Costantini's greatest coup was brought off in 1936, when he copped a copy of a highly confidential report of the British government, which declared that "no vital British interests exist in Ethiopia which would impose on His Majesty's government the necessity to resist by force the Italian occupation." Mussolini ordered the report printed in his official Giornale d'ltalia. There was consternation in Whitehall. But Whitehall's new vigilance did not uncover Costantini himself, who stayed on in the embassy, unsuspected, performing his tasks for another year before retiring...