Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coach. He is the second assistant to leave Harvard in the last two weeks and the fourth to assume a head coaching job since Yovicsin's rise in 1957. Earlier, S. D. Fazio, who joined the staff last year as defensive line coach, accepted a similar position at his alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh...
Released in 1958, Morgan resumed his practice in Washington, D.C. This time he chose the name of a Californian, Lawrence Harris, a member of the D.C. bar who had never practiced there, and he claimed Harvard Law School as his alma mater. He had lost none of his flair. After a particularly florid and emotional summation at one mur der trial, Morgan spun around before the astonished jurors and fell in a dead faint. He tried some two dozen criminal cases before he was uncovered again. Convicted of fraud, he was sent to Leavenworth prison in Kansas...
...disappointed in you is, of course, an understatement. While I sat here singing all those other alma maters, learned in infancy, you sat there grinning and whooping it up without even trying. Wow, was I mad! Couldn't you have stayed off whatever you were on until after the program? Yale really showed you up, but I don't suppose you care in the least...
...wife Chiang Ching, the most strident voice in the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Hsiao Li, in her late 20s, gained prominence a year ago when she led a Red Guard "investigation team" at Peking University. In the acid-tongued tradition of her mother, Hsiao Li described her alma mater as a "stale pond in which many wang-pa* grow." She is now chief of the editorial committee of the Liberation Army Daily, and the regime has confirmed her importance by listing her among "leading comrades" of the Defense Ministry...
...Observer's latest impertinence has sent tremors all the way to Washington. Shortly after L.B.J. named the president of Southwest Texas State College, his alma mater, as No. 2 man in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Observer published a decidedly embarrassing report on the Johnson appointee. Dr. James H. McCrocklin, the paper said, had won his doctoral degree with a dissertation almost identical to a master's thesis submitted by his wife a year earlier. The Observer not only gave paragraph-for-paragraph proof of its contention but also revealed that McCrocklin...