Word: towel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ANYBODY HERE BEAT THESE DODGERS? asked the New York Herald Tribune. Nobody seemed to know, least of all the Yankees. "I'll tell you one thing," growled Manager Ralph Houk on his arrival in Los Angeles. "We haven't thrown in no damned towel yet. We gotta start hitting soon, and I think we'll do it against that righthander-what's his name?-Drysdale...
...exciting in it, Schollander practically swam every race in Tokyo. While an 18-year-old University of Southern California sophomore named Roy Saari churned through the seemingly endless laps of the 1,500-meter freestyle, Schollander leaped crazily along the edge of the pool, waving a white towel and yelling "Get going!" For 24 lengths, Saari lagged sadly behind the lap times set by Australia's John Konrads when he posted the world record of 17:11 three years ago. Then Saari spotted Schollander's frenzied cheerleading out of the corner of his eye. His kick, which...
...without even having a chart of the waters or the know-how to read it if they did. The Coast Guard crew at Stepping Stones Light Station off New York City, where Long Island Sound meets the East River, spends a large part of the summer frantically waving a towel to warn sloppy skippers off the nearby reef. The shoal is covered with only a few inches of water, but extends for more than half a mile of deceptively open water. And a great many latter-day skippers operate on the theory that what...
...weekend Christine had met Jack Profumo for the first time. It was at Cliveden, and Christine, who was visiting Ward at his cottage on the grounds, was stealing a nude moonlight swim in Astor's pool. Suddenly Bill Astor appeared with some guests, including Profumo. Frantically clutching a towel around her dripping self, Christine was introduced to both Jack and his wife, Valerie Hobson. "She was very charming," said Christine, "but seemed wary of me." Next day, Christine brought Ivanov out to Cliveden, and the Russian and Profumo held a swimming race, which Jack only won by cheating. "That...
President Kennedy last week tossed in the towel on tax reform in 1963. Then, too late, he tried to retrieve...