Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tourist Graham also had a good word to say for "the high standard of Russian morality" and the "moral purity" of the Russians as compared to the broad-daylight sex life he had observed in London parks (TIME, June 22). Said Billy: "I did not see one person walking down the street with an arm around another. We went to a park where thousands of young people were gathered. They held hands, but they were very disciplined...
...Broad-shouldered, bird-legged Ray Norton, 21, of California's San Jose State, might have had a world mark to himself. He was so far ahead in a preliminary heat in the Fresno relays last month that he eased up and looked back over his shoulder to see what had happened to his competitors. Nevertheless, Norton ran the heat in 9.3. Said Head Timekeeper Snort Winstead: "I think he would have run 9.1 if he hadn't turned his head." Last month at Fresno the lean (6 ft. 2 in., 175 Ibs.) Norton caught the fast-finishing Morrow...
...from $75 to $22,000) by 66 U.S. artists (two-thirds under 40) now on display at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art makes a lively commentary on the present state of modern man's concerns and anxieties as well as his changing view of beauty. The broad selection chosen from some 700 entries underlines another fact: whether today's sculpture starts off as junk and ends up as art. or the other way around, there is a lot of it. Says Art Critic James Thrall Soby (who served on the selection committee ): "I think no fair...
...Barndoor: an attachment for theatrical lights that helps concentrate the beam. Broad: a type of floodlight...
...have much to say about whether you're going to march the next morning. We don't have much sense of participation." But the feeling is general that the strike is inevitable. A shear operator at a Jones & Laughlin tin mill shrugged his broad shoulders and said: "The men don't want a strike, and they don't want raises. They don't know what the union does, but they have blind faith. They'll back the union so its position won't be weakened...