Word: vendettas
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Undaunted at the absence of his old school tie, lost by a rival spot removery, the Plympton Street valet master appeared to have stepped from an authoritative, if slightly dog eared, page of Esquire. "Never fear," said Ben, "We will emerge from the New Haven vendetta by taking Yale to the Valeterias...
...years, John L. Lewis had played one role-the massive, threatening, bully-boy champion of his miners. Last fall he was challenged, fined, and-the U.S. thought-stripped of his power to strike. But the great opportunist, the master of vendetta, was only temporarily thwarted, not subdued...
...radio station, overpowered its staff and broadcast Bulldog propaganda. Then they daubed Yale blue on a bronze tiger in Palmer Square, painted up a Princeton dormitory and clock, burned a "Y" into the Nassau Tavern lawn, and chopped down the Palmer Stadium goal posts. The Yale dean called it "vendetta spirit which surpasses the realm of good...
Dodger fans, than which there are none more fanatic, long ago gave Ebbets Field a charm of its own. Branch Rickey, who became president of the Brooklyn club last winter, has made it over into vendetta alley. Hawkeyes from the stands size up each Rickey move; hawkeyes from Rickey's aerie perched over home plate size up every reflex in the stands. There is plenty for each side...
Rupp, realizing that in Kentucky his teams were playing in "feudin' country," set out long ago to make every game a vendetta. He adopted a trade-mark brown suit and a pugnacious air, took to arguing with the fans, bowing deeply to right & left when he was hissed, waggling a finger like a 10-20-30 villain. Soon Kentucky's basketball crowds grew tenfold. The whole countryside now turns out to see the hated "Man in the Brown Suit" and his "pore li'l mountain boys." So far this season, Kentucky has lost only two games...