Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steak & Fear. Fidel Castro's rebels embarrassed the authorities, but the race went on. Next afternoon the cars were ready, the Malecon that curves along Havana's lovely coastline had been cleared. A crowd of 150,000 lined the broad boulevard. The Cuban National Sports Commission delayed the race for more than an hour while local cops ran down false rumors of Fangio's release. Then France's Maurice Trintignant slid into Fangio's empty seat in a blue Maserati, and the big buckets of power were sent careening around the 3½-mile course...
...this son of an illiterate Russian barrelmaker who has been a refugee from both Communism and Naziism, art and life are synonymous, and both require only love. "Without love," his students heard, "an art is not art, and a life is not life." Chagall ranged wide over his broad subject. Samples: ¶On judgment of art: "It is better for the public to judge the artist according to his work, because the artist himself doesn't know himself. The mirror of the artist is his work...
...Roberson is favored in two events for Cornell--the broad jump and the dash. Mike Midler in the mile and John King in the high jump are the other two Big Red favorites...
John DuMoulin and Jim Doty will place for the varsity behind Army's Ed Bagdonas, while Doty should finish anywhere from fifth up in the shot. John deKiewiet and Bob Downs are grouped with a host of others who will fight for a place behind King in the broad jump, while Downs and Pat Liles should place in the broad jump...
Visitors to the chateau of Cirey came away so dumfounded that they could scarcely summon the strength to repeat everything they had seen and heard. One of them, arriving in broad daylight. claimed that he was led by a servant carrying a lantern through a succession of cavernous, shuttered rooms until a door opened into a brilliant drawing room lit by 20 candles. Here sat Emilie, Marquise du Chatelet, surrounded by scientific instruments and glittering "with diamonds like an operatic Venus." Above, "weaving spells" at the head of a secret staircase, sat "the Magician" who was Emilie's lover...