Word: 55th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clutched tape measures and struggled to look important. Skivvy-suited competitors sucked oranges, signed autographs and stretched stiff muscles with weird calisthenics. A brass band assaulted the night with Music to Run a Relay To. Over everything hovered the athletic aroma of sweat and oil of wintergreen. Then the 55th Millrose Games were on, and the 16,000 people packed into Madison Square Garden were given a night to remember...
...some 4,500 miles across the Arctic to provide aircraft detection. Just supplying the DEW line takes $14 million a year, involves 45,000 tons of cargo, shipped by air, tankers, LSTs and barges. Backing up the DEW lines are the mid-Canada line of radar stations on the 55th parallel, along with gap-plugging, low-altitude radar eyes spotted throughout the U.S. and Canada, seagoing picket ships, airborne radar and Texas towers...
...every Cotillion Room or Maisonette, the city has at least 100 small, usually drab, sometimes offbeat places, supporting all the piano players whose mothers forced them to go on taking lessons. Each has something reasonably unique, however slight. At 55th Street's Gaudeamus, tourists go for the foam-rubber padding along the edge of the bar, presumably there to protect them if the bar crashes. The best belly dancing east of Scranton, Pa. goes on in the Egyptian Gardens on West 29th Street. The African Room is full of thatch, fronds, voodoo masks, a men's room called...