Word: unorthodox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peacetime version of Cleveland's famed war baby, President William S. Jack departed last week on a year's "leave of absence." But few Clevelanders expected that Bill Jack would ever come back to Jahco. Reason: Jahco's new owners were not sold on his unorthodox employe coddling...
Readers will find this collection a good sampling of the word magic and feverish, often fervent passions that have won Dylan Thomas his present place in English poetry. Ballads, sonnets, unorthodox "visions" and "prayers"-all are dedicated to sensual man and a triumphant joie de vivre...
Harvard's offensive rebuttal to the proficiency of the vaunted Yale backs lies principally in the person of Chip Gannon. Freshman wingback who has broken away consistently for long gains on sweeps from Harlow's unorthodox L formation...
Campbell defended the early election and unorthodox nominating procedure (labelled as a self-perpetuating move on Friday by the Revisionists) on the grounds that the Council was at present four men under strength. He cited three major committees -- Extra-Curricular, Housing, and Student Finance--as being swamped with work and "unable to function effectively since every available Council member is already occupied with other matters...
...semifinals, Mary was matched against the great Mildred ("Babe") Didrickson Zaharias. Babe's tee shots boomed down the fairways about 80 yards farther than Mary's. Mary's unorthodox swing, which her father, a golfing dentist, refuses to correct, looked pitifully inadequate. But the closer she got to the green, the deadlier her game became. The best stick in her bag was a battered 15-year-old putter, with which she sank two 35-ft. putts. Babe fell two holes behind in the first three and could not catch up. Exit the Babe...