Word: way
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a grim time of year for Jaakko Mikkola. It's been that way for more autumns than Mr. Mikkola cares to recall, because Jaakko coaches cross-country and track-and Harvard hasn't turned out a reasonably good team in either sport since...
...this point football gave way to eloquence. Bill Cunningham, a high-salaried local scrivener, arose, said he'd rather be in Washington watching the Red Sox, and opened his eulogy of Dartmouth with a reference to "my beloved alma mater." Things aren't so hot up there, he said, because what with one thing and another they've lost the left side of the defensive line from end to center. But: "We aren't striking the flag," "we older fellows must realize the game has changed;" and "football teaches . . . all those beautiful things without which...
...didn't discuss the team much, for the reason that he hadn't watched them yet. But he wound up with a pretty good argument for Mr. Bingham's athletic policy: "Let them (subsidizing colleges) work their side of the street. I hope we never do it any other way than we do now . . . all our players are students, all undergraduates." It was an interesting note of sanity in the football fever of the great hall...
Senator Robert Taft is the latest prominent American to discover the beastly way in which this country has treated its staunch ally, Generalissimo Franco. He proposes a resumption of diplomatic relations with the Spanish dictator, in the interest of strengthening Western Europe against a possible Russian attack...
...undemocratic their governments may be, led to the debacle in China, and can lose the cold war for us if it is followed on a world-wide scale. The ideological side of the present struggle is more important in the long run than the military phase, and the only way to win it is to discourage all undemocratic elements in the West...