Word: anchorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sinatra's 168-ft. chartered yacht Southern Breeze. What tantalized pursuing newsmen most was the notion that Frankie and Mia (who plays Allison Mackenzie in TV's Peyton Place), were married-or about to be. All anybody knew for sure, as the Southern Breeze lay at anchor off colorful Cape Cod that afternoon, was that among the fresh foodstuffs taken aboard at Hyannisport were several boxes of a body-building breakfast cereal called Fruit Loops...
Using an ordinary wrench for such an ordinary job would throw an astronaut for a loop. Newton's third law of motion is an inexorable reminder that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Thus, in a state of weightlessness, without gravity to anchor the man, an astronaut attempting to put together a space station while in orbit could not hope to use anything as simple as the big wrench with which a car driver changes tires. Every time he tried to exert pressure on nut or bolt, he would turn in the opposite direction. Martin...
...problem is that even experts disagree on the reasons for slides. Some Castellamare homeowners blame their losses on the builder of the apartment complex, who cut deeply into the hill face to anchor his foundations halfway up. Says one dispossessed resident: "Even a child building sand castles on the beach knows that if the boy next to him cuts away the base of his sand pile, the castle is going to collapse." On the other hand, the contractor's site was checked by geologists before the city issued him a building permit...
When he saw the tape, Cassius had a new story. The punch that flattened Liston, he insisted, was his secret "anchor punch"-so named because it anchors opponents to the floor. The punch was taught to him by a darkface comedian named Stepin Fetchit, who learned it from Jack Johnson, first of the great Negro champions. Said Clay: "It's a chop, so fast you can't see it. It's karate. It's got a twist to it. Just one does...
...mile relay and came up with an, easy win in 3:19.9. Anderson running his fifth race of the day, handed over a two-yard lead to Sam Robinson, who stretched it to five. Keith Chiappa padded that margin, and Tony Lynch turned it on in the anchor to win by 20 yards...