Word: westly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army had the word straight from an old West Point superintendent now in Tokyo. Messaged General Douglas Mac-Arthur: "There is no substitute for victory." If West Point's tough, all-conquering football squad needed any further goad last week, it was supplied by pre-game gibes from the Navy cheering section. With President Harry Truman and 102,442 others watching in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, Annapolis banners flaunted some sore subjects...
...asking "After Davidson-Smith?" hit at the breather games on West Point's comparatively soft schedule. Making capital of West Point's unwillingness to play...
There was nothing Navy could do about the savagery of Army's defense platoon, the precisely explosive blocking of its offense, the smart quarterbacking of All-America Arnold Galiffa. A versatile, 22-year-old ex-G.I. (who is also a baseball infielder and captain of West Point's basketball team), Galiffa bossed the team with easy nonchalance, completed eleven passes, scored one touchdown himself and called on heavy-duty Fullback Gil Stephenson to crash over for three more...
...quarrel with just about everybody he met, for long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked to the heels when word got around that Reporter...
...legends and poems, composed scores of essays and sketches on Japanese life. In the essays prepared for the eyes of Western readers, he remained his adopted country's devoted partisan to the end. Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries in commercial experience . . . that her admirable army and her heroic navy may be doomed...