Word: balled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time Step. In Waterloo, Iowa. Reynold Nels Rickan, 27, was jailed after he bought four tickets to the policemen's ball with a bum check...
While Johnson was in Salt Lake City, 1,300 Democrats gathered in the Terrace Ball Room to select Utah's delegation to the Democratic Convention. The sentiment at the meeting was strong for Jack Kennedy and Stuart Symington, with some residual strength going for Adlai Stevenson. It is doubtful that Johnson picked up a single delegate vote in the three states he visited (total convention strength: 49 votes), but he did leave a good impression of L.B.J., the moderate, responsible candidate, and if the convention should become deadlocked, Johnson will find some new second-or third-round friends...
...club pro's five-year-old son. Coming up to drive, the women players would chuckle at the kid, then look with dismay toward the drainage ditch that lay 120 yards down the fairway. At that point, Arnie would make a sound business offer: "I'll knock your ball over the ditch for a nickel...
...Charles Strouse & Lee Adams) is not particularly expert, but it doesn't have to be. There is something infectiously and rampageously lively about it. Staged with exuberance by Gower Champion, who is the real hero of the evening, Birdie has the special crazy zip of a bowling ball on the loose, of rifle shots not so much hitting the bull's-eye as overturning the target...
...Giovanni. For all the Met's fine performances this year, the NBC Opera Company's TV version last week stood out as a high point of the opera season. Usually, English translations of opera have the incongruous effect of a grey flannel suit at a fancy dress ball, but this time Poet W. H. Auden and Collaborator Chester Kallman managed to provide language that was not ridiculed by the music or drowned by it; the TV microphone clearly picked out the words that, in an opera house, usually fail to cross the orchestra pit. As a result, with...