Word: game
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...that the sentiments expressed in your letter were not thought of before Nov. 7, when the campaign in your state, Utah, North Carolina, Illinois and Indiana was carried on in a manner that was as low as I've ever seen and I've been in this game since...
Hostesses who play the old Washington society game of inviting mutual enemies to the same party seldom stir up anything more exciting than pointed remarks and a few hard looks. But Miss Louise Tinsley Steinman, 27, daughter of Publisher J. Hale Steinman of Lancaster, Pa., got sensational results in the game last week. She asked both Columnist Drew Pearson and his mortal enemy Senator Joe McCarthy to a little dinner she was giving at the fashionable Sulgrave Club...
...collided with a member of his own backfield. In a letter to Peoples World, Sports Editor Lester Rodney of Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker wrote: ". . . My friend Nat Low has in a sectarian moment gone hogwild on football ... By and large . . . it's still a fine game . . . Nat is actually exceedingly silly when he takes the high-school chants about rocking 'em and socking 'em and reads a process of blood-seeking brutalization into...
...onetime teacher, Phog Allen.* A record 13,000 fans filled Kentucky's new Memorial Coliseum to watch the duel between Kentucky's Spivey (rhymes with ivy) and Clyde Lovellette, the Kansas skyscraper (6 ft. 9 in.) who set a Big Seven record of 545 points in 25 games last year. Before the game Rupp warned reporters: "As Spivey goes, we go." Spivey went beautifully...
...half time, Spivey had 14 points to Lovellette's four and Kentucky led Kansas 28-12. The baffled Lovellette fouled out in the third quarter, after being held to ten points by Spivey's glue-like guarding. Spivey himself had scored 22 points (high for the game). When Lovellette went out, Rupp took out Spivey too ("We wanted their playing time to be even"). From then on, Sophomore Guard Frank Ramsey took over the Kentucky scoring (19 points), as Rupp emptied his bench. Final score...