Word: anchorings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fish and the comparative adjective (his variation on the ungrammatical "best-man-win" theme: "May the better participant emerge triumphant"), in 1935 capped a lifelong battle against race hate by imploring an inflamed crowd at the Primo Carnera-Joe Louis bout: "Leave us all view this contest without anchor or prejudism...
...Forbidden Games) Clement in a film noir that is skillful as well as repulsive. One pleasant summer's day, while drifting lazily over the Bay of Naples, Tom suddenly rams a fish knife into Philip's heart, wraps his body in a tarpaulin, weights it with an anchor, drops it overboard. Then he sails back to port, puts his own picture in Philip's passport, schools himself to forge the victim's signature, coolly cashes his checks and starts to live...
...cabin cruiser had enough electronic equipment to fit out a small space satellite: hifi, stereo, TV, RDF, ship-to-shore radio, as well as refrigerator, push-button electric anchor, three-ton central air-conditioning unit, and separate power plant. Bored by the waste of time involved in troll fishing, its skipper located fishing holes with his electronic depth gauge, then sportingly set out bait and hook. Sleek and awesome as a jet fighter, as it nosed through the same waters, was a 16-ft. home-built craft powered by a 450-h.p. sports-car engine. "I wanted a hot boat...
Repsher, especially, had a field day. He won the 440 in 40.2 and the 220 into the wind in 22.8. He was second in the 100, and ran a fine anchor leg in the relay...
...methodical as an engineer's blueprint. He wakes at 5, meditates for a while, and then, in measured steps, proceeds to his white studio, designed by U.S. Architect (and fellow Catalonian) José Luis Sert. There, surrounded by favorite shapes and objects-a rotting rudder, a rusting anchor, a decaying sheet of metal, bits of pottery, and some toy turtles-he contemplates for about an hour. "By this time," says he, "I am filled with fury for my work, and I am ready to jump off the balcony." Instead, he paints through the morning. After lunch and a rest...