Word: waterlooed
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...Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton...
...probably significant," writes G. F. Lamb in The Happiest Days, "that the best-known statement on English education is connected with Sport. Ask any person you meet in the street where the Battle of Waterloo was won, and if the word 'playing-fields' is not out of his mouth before the question is finished you may be sure that he is of foreign extraction. The familiar Wellington epigram has egged on thousands of prefects to beat their juniors for not playing in or supporting House cricket and football matches; it has encouraged hundreds of thousands of spectators...
...they poured, feeding the Ohio, the Missouri and, at last, the Mississippi. In that vast watershed, comprising 41% of the nation's land area and affecting 31 states, spring has always been a season for apprehension-and often of tragedy. Last week, in some few such places as Waterloo, in the Cedar River region of Iowa, where adequate flood-control installations do not yet exist, more than 6,000 people fled their homes as the river overswelled its banks. But for countless other homeowners in the broad center swath of the U.S., the rising tide of spring floodwaters portended...
...elective office, resourceful Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 78, should have perfected every possible defense against babies who try to reciprocate his professional affections. But last week in his home town of Bonham, Texas, Mister Sam, a childless bachelor of long standing, met a politician's minor Waterloo in eight-month-old Marty Grove, son of a Dallas reporter. Coming out of a clinch, Rayburn forgot to duck...
...Hindemith, Rachmaninoff, two Harvard-connected composers -- Walter Piston and Daniel Pinkham--and others. The most unusual part of the program came with Jacques Casterede's settings of three proclamations of Napoleon (well narrated by Robert Brooks), winding up with an over-whelming musical representation of the Battle of Waterloo for brass and full percussion...