Word: 80s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice around such oldies as Get Happy, Embraceable You and I've Got You Under My Skin. Not only could she get around a nightclub floor without a trace of a limp, she was spending her spare time on the golf course, trying to regain her low-80s game...
Toward week's end, the Red air force cautiously reappeared. Over Taejon, four patrolling U.S. F-80s met four Yak fighters, shot down three; other Yaks tried to intercept U.S. B-29s on their mission to Seoul, giving them, in the words of a U.S. briefing officer, "a pretty good scrap." Airfields previously deserted were again abustle with Red aircraft...
...force returned some of its attention to hunting down Yaks. Corsairs, Panther jets and land-based F-80s made a two-day attack on airfields at Pyongyang and Yonpo, knocking out at least 30 enemy planes on the ground...
...year. Summers they spend at Great Neck, L.I., in an English Tudor mansion (which Levitt rents for $7,500 a season) which has both a swimming pool and a private bathing beach on Long Island Sound. On summer weekends Bill sometimes plays golf (low 90s) with wife Rhoda (low 80s) but is not disturbed by his constant defeats. Says he: "I hate all forms of exercise." He has little interest in anything not connected with building, seldom reads anything but the newspapers and magazines. To visitors in his office Bill Levitt likes to hand out copies of his favorite book...
Helped by a 3½-knot ebbing tide and an 8-mile quartering wind, Nigl buzzed alone past the Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, marking the finish opposite Manhattan's west 80s. At first, on the assumption that he was just another sightseer, no one paid much attention to him. He circled the utter twice, waving frantically. Belatedly the marathon committee took note of the approximate finish time: 3 hours 18 minutes. It cracked Scott's 1949 record by more than 10 minutes, for an average speed of 39.3 m.p.h...