Word: monstering
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...fewer people went to football games than had gone in 1947, 48, and 49. This was true not only at Harvard but all across the nation. The National Collegiate Athletic Association would like to know why, and at the moment it is pointing a shaky finger at the Blinking Monster, television...
...second thought, the "popular" demand for a Perón-Perón ticket seemed less than overwhelming. Only 250,000, instead of the expected 2,000,000, had turned out for last fortnight's monster meeting at which the Peróns said yes. Some Peronista chieftains began to complain that too many traditions were being broken too fast and that the Sefiora had better restrain her ambitions for a while. At the last minute, moreover, Argentina's soldiers were reported bridling at the unspeakable thought that if Perón should die, a woman would...
...South African Institute of Race Relations takes a different view. This week it declared: "Thousands of non-Europeans, because they have been unable to see any prospects of bettering themselves socially or economically, have turned in sheer hopelessness to the . . . lawless alternatives left to them. Threatened by the monster they have created, the European citizens of the larger South African centers have seemingly still no conscience regarding their deed . . . If we do not destroy this monster and remove its cause, it will destroy...
...Coyo owes this world few debts: his mulatto father is a lame hunchback, his Hindu-Chinese mother "a female monster with a squint." The family, which lives in the Martinique port of St. Pierre, is forever poor, and to buy the canoe he desperately wants, Ti-Coyo dives for coins whenever the liners pull in. But the competition is terrific; dozens of strapping Negro divers leave only small change for little fellows like Ti-Coyo. How, wonders the boy, can he liquidate his competition...
...festival devotees. They cleaned up the Festspielhaus, hired musicians, replaced costumes and sets destroyed by playfully masquerading American G.I.s quartered in the building at the end of the war. The Wagners also designed some imaginative props. Example: Fafner, the dragon in Siegfried, is a 30-foot, steam-snorting monster with bloody ten-foot jaws, and teeth a foot long. Mused Wolfgang: "Grandfather, in the sky, probably would not like what we are doing. But on second thought, he was such a revolutionary himself, he would probably go along...