Word: whopper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...found it possible to stay alive on this budget by rising slowly to a breakfast of two (2) eggs, one (1) toast, one (1) coffee, and grits (several). Lunch-dinner-dessert (they were identical), a Whopper Burger and a strawberry shake. Tom Foltz '69 Field Representative in Alabama, had wired frozen chicken dinners to his engine block to avoid spending his $1.50 for dinner in a cafe. On the road, most of us slept in sleeping bags or in the car. By the end of the summer each of us had put between 12,000 and 16,000 miles...
...League's second division fellows have been feasting on Dartmouth's doormat. Brown's only League win was a whopper, 12-3 over the Green. Last Saturday, Princeton ran up an equally lopsided score, 8-2. Harvard has already defeated both the Bruins and Tigers...
...Beatles Book," and the other premiered -- minus staging -- at Lincoln Center this summer. The second is a great piece of doggerel from "A Spaniard in the Works" in which Thomas Weber, as detective Shamrock Wombls, solves "The Singularge Experience of Miss Ann Duffield" and explains, "Harry Belafonte, my dear Whopper...
...were not deaf at last week's Boston opening, either. Elinor Hughes (Herald) found the number "just great." Kevin Kelly (Globe) cited Price's "vivid performance" and said he "sings with enough power and feeling to bring the roof down, and he does." Alta Maloney (Traveler) called it "a whopper of a show-stopper, sung in a voice that made chills go up and down the spine." T.K. Morse (Patriot Ledger) found him "glorious." Bradford Swan (Providence Journal) said Price sang "superbly," and Donald Cragin (Worcester Telegram) felt he performed "with the verve of one who has practiced generations...
...Intercollegiate Conference (today's Big Ten) flatly refused to play them, and the frustrated Irish had to content themselves with belting the likes of Franklin (64-0), Loyola of Chicago (80-0) and St. Viator (116-7). In 1913, casting around for games. Coach Jesse Harper hooked a whopper Old Rivals Harvard and Yale had dropped off Army's schedule because the Cadets refused to sell tickets to their games. Desperate for a "filler" Army agreed to a $1,000 guarantee, and Harper's eager Irish headed East. Undefeated in four games, Army was a powerhouse?and there were chuckles...