Word: gamut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...phenomenal, and is the winningest pitcher in the majors. Gary Bell, who was acquired from Cleveland in a trade, has won six games for the Sox, but it is highly doubtful that he will keep it up. The other starters--Lee Stange, Gary Waslewski, and Darrell Brandon--run the gamut from mediocre to awful...
Today, though the company shies away from such freak items as smoked whale steak and chocolate-covered ants, its goodies run the gamut from terrapin stew to mushrooms grown in Parisian caves and frozen coquilles St.Jacques in real shells. Its private brand of Kentucky bourbon is a best seller in New England. Despite its gourmet eminence, S.S. Pierce ran into trouble when supermarkets began stocking rival specialty foods to lure the well-to-do. Sales have stagnated around $35 million a year for a decade, and profits have lately dwindled to the vanishing point. Incoming President Williams hopes to beef...
...During the long Victorian era, wit had hardly been considered a feminine attribute. Dorothy Parker proved again that bitchiness could be the soul of wit. When she heard the news that Calvin Coolidge had died, she asked: "How can they tell?" Of Katharine Hepburn she said: "She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B." After a Broadway evening, she reported: "The House Beautiful is the play lousy...
...boasted not only an impressive display of 16 privately owned Picassos and Braques, but also works by Lichtenstein and Warhol-plus 17 works by contemporary Dusseldorf artists. The area's leading modern-art collector, aristocratic Frau Fann Schniewind, has amassed a $1,000,000 collection that runs the gamut from a white-plaster woman painting her fingernails by U.S. Pop Sculptor George Segal to a white disk studded with a forest of white nails casting elliptical shadows by Gunther Uecker...
Learning & Doing. Her nicknames run the gamut from "gnat" to "bear cat." Equipped with a Gallic temper, Cathy chews out anyone in her way with a remarkably complete selection of four-letter G.I.-English words seasoned with a few choice five-letter French specialties. Once she used them a bit too freely with Marine brass and was banned from the I Corps area for six months. The ban was lifted only two weeks before the 881 assault...