Word: womanless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...farthest-out tournament of all may some day take place in space. Parker has already built two astronaut sets with aluminum houses and hotels and noncombustible paper supplied by NASA. The sets could accompany the closely confined and womanless crew the U.S. may send on a two-year mission to Mars before the end of the century. That would enable the Mars astronauts to engage in the longest-established, permanent floating space game in history. Says Bluffton College Psychology Professor (and Monopoly Fan) William J. Beausay: "All men have to have a strong motivator to compensate for loss...
...This womanless ("hairy legs") tradition dates back to the first Pudding production of December 13, 1844 in Hollis 11. That first production was a direct steal from a stage play which had run in Boston at the old Tremont Theatre. Lemuel Hayward '45, together with a few of his colleagues, agreed that the mock trials had run their course. (The most popular of them had been called Dido vs. Aeneas: for Breach of Trust). And so Bombastes Furioso, the first in a long line of Pudding preparations was born. The play included one female character named Distaffina. "Madam" Augustus...
...unskilled half of the crew, most of whom are Louisiana Cajuns and Mississippi farmers, life on the impregnable, womanless island becomes a monotonous cycle of dirt, grease, curses and the knowledge that tomorrow will be more of the same. The men, known as roustabouts, work and sleep 14 days at a time on the platform before they get a week's rest on shore. They are tired of this life. Many would like to quit. But they cannot. They find themselves trapped by the realization that however torturous the job is, the money is good, better than they could...