Word: gridiron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football, later won his letter as a well-disciplined lineman in two successive undefeated University of Michigan seasons. He turned down pro offers, headed for a law degree at Yale, where he earned his way as assistant varsity football coach and coach of the freshman boxing team. Among his gridiron players: Ohio's former Republican Congressman Robert Taft Jr. and Wisconsin's Democratic Senator William Proxmire ("Bob was a better tackle than Bill...
...diffusion of government responsibility and the diffusion of powers." He supports the 27½% oil-depletion allowance, so important to oil-rich Oklahoma, has reservations about the Civil Rights Act, opposes federal aid to education, favors minimal federal controls in agriculture. To the argument that a success on the gridiron might not suffice for achievement in the U.S. Senate, Wilkinson says: "Lyndon Johnson was a schoolteacher, Hubert Humphrey a pharmacist. I think a football coach can play that game. As athletic director at Oklahoma University I managed a budget of $1.6 million...
...gridiron, the Varsity, after lying dormant for its first four games, came back to squash Princeton, 26-7, sneak by Yale, 7-0, and carry off Big Three honors for the second straight year...
...second row, tough football tackles Mike Foley and Jeff Pochop will be hard to move. Backing them up in the last row of the scrum will be more gridiron veterans -- Gene Skowronski, Brad Stevens, Dick Lozeau and Lloyd MacDonald...
...annual dinner of the Writers' Guild of America is one of those har-de-har-har festivals like Washington's Gridiron Club and Manhattan's Circus Saints & Sinners meetings. This year the tone was set early when John Huston arose to accept an award for advancing "the literature of the motion picture through the years." He waved a bottle of champagne at the cheering masses, declaring that he was drinking to them all "from an overflowing cup, with an overflowing heart." Champagne foamed out of his glass and down over his dinner jacket like a cataract...