Word: y
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sought out Bond, asked him if he concurred in the Snick statement. Replied Bond: "Fully." Later, Pacifist Bond added: "I admire the courage of anyone who burns his draft card"-even though he does not advocate draft-card burning and has not burned his own Selective Service classification I-Y card (exempt on physical, mental or moral grounds except in time of war or national emergency...
...Y. KRASNA...
...ration was lopped in half-from 6 lbs. a month per person to 3 lbs. Oh, well, shrugged Fidel, a rice-free diet "can be much richer in proteins, vitamins, minerals and energy," which was not much consolation to a populace that has always based its meals on Moros y Cristianos (Moors and Christians), as many Cubans fondly call their staple beans and rice...
...threw the game. Is that what you want to hear?" growled Coach Vince Lombardi, after his Green Bay Packers conveniently lost their way into a tie with the Baltimore Colts for the National Football League's Western Conference championship. Convenient y, that is, for the N.F.L. - which scheduled a play-off on nationwide TV for the same afternoon that the San Diego Chargers and Buffalo Bills were to battle it out for the championship of the rival American Football League. Poor A.F.L. Last week, in 74 minutes of crunching football, the Packers managed...
...didn't even win his varsity letter at Yale and he once admitted ruefully: "I was a guard on a very poor football squad-we lost twice to Harvard and twice to Princeton in my two years." But the National Football Foundation figured he would have got the "Y" if he hadn't racked up his back in his sophomore year in 1919. Anyway, he'd run pretty well later on, founding Pan American Airways in 1927. Chairman and chief executive officer of Pan Am, Trippe accepted the foundation's 1965 Gold Medal Award...