Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Against superior muscle, that was the best morale could do. In the final competition in Manhattan. Russia's Heavyweight (more than 198½ Ibs.) Alexei Medvedev, his big bay window leaking over his belt, posed pensively before the bar bells as if thought alone could lift them from the floor. Then he stopped thinking, started straining, and hefted a total of 1,080 Ibs. in three heaves, to lead his teammates to one more 4-3 victory. Said the Russians' political chaperon as he accepted congratulations for his boys' clean sweep: "I hope you have...
...away from the water." After a stretch in the Navy during World War I, "Mom wanted me to be President and the old man wanted me to be an admiral. Me, I wanted to be a charter boatman. I bought a backyard-built, potbellied boat called the Bonita in Bay Head, N.J., put my mother, father and girl friend on board, and headed for Miami. The girl got off in Maryland, but we made it to Miami." In those days "the water in the bay was gin-clear, and you could stand on the bank and catch twice your weight...
...patrolman, John D. Paine, held fellow officers at bay for an hour, and was critically wounded when his revolver fired as he was being subdued...
...olive-drab, two-engined plane without markings or number swept in low and thundering over the Indonesian port of Balikpapan in Borneo. Bombs tumbled out from the opened bomb bay, and the British tanker, San Flaviano, erupted in a series of explosions that broke the vessel's back. An Indonesian corvette, anchored protectively at the harbor mouth, took a direct hit, burst into flames from stem to stern. The Royal Dutch Shell Co. hastily shut down its installations at Balikpapan, signaled oil tankers to clear the area...
...Francisco evangelistic crusade at the 16,500-seat Cow Palace in a glow of promising statistics. The 1,175 participating ministers have reserved 250,000 seats for the crusade-more than in any city but Glasgow. Instead of the expected 2,500 volunteers for counselor training in the whole Bay area, a whopping 5,100 came...