Word: lavishes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...undertook the ride not purely in the spirit of adventure," Grunwald wrote with lavish understatement, "but because it offered the only means of transportation to a reindeer roundup that I wanted very much to see. For the first few minutes, a friendly Lapp sat beside me on the precarious vehicle, not improved in design since the stone age, and all was well. But then the caravan stopped for an instant, the Lapp got up, handed me the crude reins, grinned encouragingly, and was gone. There I crouched, staring at the jiggling rump of the reindeer, going like crazy across...
...first is an attempt to stop lavish alumni gifts to high school stars. Previously there had been no restriction in some conferences on sources and sizes of scholarship aid. The second was an obvious attempt to keep schools from conferring degrees in football...
Five rules for colleges have already been passed by the presidents. They forbid the continuation of post-season bowl football games, freshman participation on varsity teams, special courses for athletes, alumni athletic scholarships, and "lavish entertainment" of high school stars...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Dr. John Hanna, president of Michigan State and chairman of the committee of the ten educators, said they were unanimously agreed that: 1) sports competition should be confined to its season. Football should be played from September to "about December first." 2) "Lavish entertainment of prospective stars" should be prohibited. 3) Freshmen should be barred from varsity teams. 4) College athletes should be made to maintain grades good enough to get them a degree in four years, and those who cannot keep up should be barred from competition. 5) Booster and alumni clubs should not be allowed...
...bicycle manufacturer, for instance, is strictly limited in the amount of nickel he may use. Japanese manufacturers may use all they can buy. Japanese businessmen have plunged into a spree of lavish (and tax free) expense-account entertainment, bigger and shinier foreign cars, extravagant nightclubs and pleasure palaces. The sight of an oxcart stopped beside a Cadillac or a Jaguar is no novelty in downtown Tokyo. In this spendthrift, neon-lighted economic chaos, gangsters, blackmarketeers and slick operators-U.S., Chinese and Korean as well as Japanese-wax fat and prosperous. More & more worried Japanese are aware that the imperial...