Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be visited by numbers of intramural politicians who will desire to ingratiate and recommend themselves for the new seats on the Council. The Masters should know that these are just the sort whose machinations made the Council amendment necessary. Besieged by the overeager, the Master will tend to turn to the restrained and intelligent, but indifferent, man whom he may know better and consider more suitable as a representative...
...Crimson ends were playing wide against these runs, and often managed to turn them inside. But the Princeton tailbacks, Hugh "the Great" Scott and John "Silky" Sullivan, usually managed to get six to ten yards into the Crimson secondary before being brought down. They were both fast and tricky runners; and they were greatly assisted by the blocking of Capt. Fred Tiley and quarterback Mike Ippolito...
Despite Benjamin's effort, however, the harriers placed fifth in the overall competition, losing to Army, Yale, Navy, and Brown. Army's squad functioned ruthlessly and efficiently, placing five well-oiled runners in the first twelve finishers. Yale squeaked by Navy, 84 to 85, managing to turn in another close win after their 27-28 defeat of the Crimson last week...
...part of it tense and whispered. Briggs, an old hand at such meetings, sensed a difficult situation. There were full professors present who would not have been full professors if Greg had remained on the staff, and Briggs knew the depth of their dislike and resentment; and they in turn, by innuendo and gesture, had communicated their sentiments to certain younger members of the department. Briggs knew it would not do to allow a discussion, or, above all, a vote. Smiling blandly, he asked Hall and Ford if they would allow him to appoint a committee to study their proposal...
Emerson pointed out the recent "turn in the direction of military take-over" in Asia. However, the army, he observed, was sometimes a "progressive force" in a young society. He also noted that democratic institutions were much stronger in those underdeveloped nations which had "long colonial experience" than in the ones which had always been independent...