Word: escutcheon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...muggy afternoon last week, the 15 boys and 25 girls (spelling is a literal-minded business) clustered around microphones in the National Press Club for the finals. After a few rounds of easy ones, the spellers began to trip. Escutcheon, toboggan, chrysalis, mollify, appurtenant, desecrate, diaphanous, discernible, penitentiary . . . (The master of ceremonies tried to soothe the kids who flubbed: "Too bad, Sara, you stayed up there real long.") Troche, scintilla, poliomyelitis, calyx, cirrus, piccalilli, lachrymose, geodesy, insipid . . . ("That's all right, Martin. I always spell 'insipid' with a 'c,' too.") Syllabus, addendum, flaccid, desiccate, accordion...
...like to register a protest. Your fighting cocks story [TIME, March 8] didn't belong in the Sport section. This bloody mark on the escutcheon of our so-called "civilized" society is hardly sport. Judging from the heavy wagering involved, the morbid details might more appropriately have appeared under Business...
...Southern states on the proper conduct of racial relations. Usually this advice contains no indication that the donor appreciates the institutional and historical framework within which change must be effected; and all too often it reeks self-righteousness which is by no means justified. To show that the Northern escutcheon is not without blot, one need search no further than Cambridge, itself, seat of culture and learning, to find an instance of social discrimination which occurred only last Spring...
Baseball, after passing through its only great scandal in 1919, appointed the late Kennesaw Mountain Landis as its all-powerful "czar," and for two decades his iron hand kept baseball's escutcheon spotless. Now would seem an appropriate time for all professional sports to choose together a joint ruling committee with similar vast regulatory powers, and thus aid in keeping the final outcome of all sporting events in doubt for all the spectators...
Eliot House' nautical proboseidean have captured the inter-House basketball laurels for the 1943 season. The finished up the second round of the competition with their escutcheon still unblemished thus doing away with any need for playoff...