Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Sugar Ray Robinson, grown old and brittle at 39, lost his comic-opera middleweight championship of New York and Massachusetts in 15 floundering rounds at Boston Garden to a flat-nosed pug named Paul Fender from nearby Brookline, later sat with lowered head and talked quietly of the erosion of the powers that had made him the greatest fighter of his generation ("That split second that goes by when you're missing opportunities...
...migration solution so quickly ? Granting that 600 years hence we will be down to one square meter apiece, if we look 600 years the other way, we were still more than 100 years from finding the whole Western Hemisphere-when esteemed leaders still were sure the world was flat...
After years of bombarding each other with flat denials and unflattering recriminations, the two sides in the smoking-and-lung-cancer controversy came close to sense-making agreement last week. Previously, evidence has usually been offered at one-sided meetings-either by those who indict heavy cigarette smoking as the principal cause or by those who put the blame for lung cancer's explosive increase on general atmospheric pollution. Last week authorities from both schools met in San Francisco under auspices of the University of California* the Tobacco Industry Research Committee put up $28,000 toward expenses...
...unmarried and disenchanted with life in the Socialist, poverty-stricken Vienna of 1926. When her love for stuffy Prince Wieland Traun is rebuffed, Milli despairingly gives herself to another young man, in what may well be the most tepidly described seduction in contemporary literature: "One day in their flat, when his mother was out for a couple of hours only, he began to undress me . . . That I was a virgin surprised...
Kaufmann set a pool record by winning the 100-yard freestyle in 50 seconds flat. The final relay team also set a pool mark...