Word: wood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more serious objection to the old seats was that they were of wood. With the great crowds that football and baseball attracted the weak wooden stands were no longer safe. And there was the ever-present danger of fire. The H.A.A. had a crew of firemen and often a fire engine at every contest. During the spring of 1903, only the quick thinking of an usher avoided disaster when a section of the grandstand caught fire during a baseball game. The heroic usher restrained a panicked spectator from spreading the alarm through the packed stands...
Other epic contests have followed. One of the most famous was the 1929 Army contest, in which the Crimson tied a West Point eleven led by all-time great Chris Cagle, 20 to 20. Putnam and Barry Wood, then a substitute, completed seven of 12 passes for 168 yards, including a list-ditch aerial to end V.M. Harding for the tying touchdown...
...broken almost every advertising rule in the book. Their ads are casually illustrated, almost never done in color, and they can pussyfoot around a subject so quietly that the reader sometimes has trouble telling what the ad is about. What they do have is fun, an aged-in-the-wood humor that tickles readers and rings up billings of $1,000,000 a year from clients who give them some 20% of the gross, compared to the usual agency fee of about 15%. Says bearded Joe Weiner: "People don't read ads. They read what interests them...
...famed Romanée-Conti vineyards, her vines laden with small, almost black bunches of grapes dimpled by the sun and heavy with sugar, said as the harvest began: ''When you look at the bunches, you only see the fruit. You don't see the wood any more...
...Henry Fordyce, Jr. Day unto all perpetuity. They drank a toast to him with the two beverages permitted by contract at lunch. The plans for a suitable memorial are not complete, but it is rumored that they plan to incise his name into that hallowed jelly table with a wood-burning pencil...