Word: guards
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...whistle, when a Roman score was recalled for an offside; the argument that followed stopped play for five minutes. One could follow every phase of the discussion quite clearly merely by watching the extraordinarily vivid gesticulations of the players. The most interesting performance was staged by the Navaro goal-guard, who put on a private demonstration of shame and rage by lying face down in front of the goal and beating the unoffending earth with his fists, feet, and forehead. Even after the umpire's decision had been upheld, the goalie refused solace and continued his violent soliloquy long after...
After the game the crowd came to life. One group promptly stormed the umpire's quarters, forcing mounted police to form a guard for his withdrawal and motorcycle police to escort him from the city. Another group surrounded the locker rooms for two hours, screaming for the coach's blood. A third, and still larger party, marched back into town and held up traffic until 9 p.m., as they demonstrated their disapproval in front of the League headquarters...
...abstractions (TIME, Dec. i, 1947 et seq.) stump experts as well as laymen. Laymen wonder what to look for in the labyrinths which Pollock achieves by dripping paint onto canvases laid flat on the floor; experts wonder what on earth to say about the artist. One advance-guard U.S. critic has gone so far as to call him the "most powerful painter in America." Another, more cautious, reported that Pollock "has carried the irrational quality of picture-making to one extremity" (meaning, presumably, his foot). The Museum of Modern Art's earnest Alfred Barf, who picked Pollock, among others...
...Black Watch (so called from its somber Scottish tartan and original duties as a Highland guard) was first organized as a regiment in 1739. Families of three counties (Perth, Angus, Fife) supplied most of the first recruits, have continued to do so ever since, making the Black Watch "in truth a family, with ... ancestors and descendants." For 200 years the infantrymen of the Watch marched to war in kilts; with the coming of World War II they were ordered-to prevent identification-into common khaki uniforms. "But damn it!" roared an enraged Jock on hearing this shocking news, "We want...
When taken prisoner, the Jocks became more intractable than ever and were often shifted from ordinary P.W. camps to military prisons for a varied list of offenses, e.g., "Dunlop, five years for sabotage; Dykes, four years for breaking a picture of Hitler over the head of a guard; Thomson, five years for making an unprintable remark about Hitler . . ." Black Watchers were not only disrespectful prisoners, they were restless ones. Every captured officer of the regiment made at least one effort to escape...