Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best runner who ever lived. Thorpe was flamboyant and unpredictable; he could be very good when the notion struck him-or very, very bad; he was always at his best when he had a bet riding on the game. Nagurski was a runaway truck who was lucky to be bigger (at 230 lbs.) than most of the people he had to run over in the 1930s. Grange was a 165-lb. scatback, who never ran over anybody at all. Like Brown, he was accused of being a shirker at blocking: "All Grange can do is run," was the classic comment...
Thin on Research? Thus, the blackout may have proved a timely warning. "Think what one Russian with a pair of pliers could do," mused Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co. Chairman C. Spencer Clark. To others, it was a reminder that bigger systems may invite bigger blackouts, unless they are made more reliable. The suspicion among many was that the utilities, in their increasing reliance on pools to meet the ever-rising U.S. demand for power?it has doubled in every recent decade?have cut themselves thin on research and development that might have prevented last week's debacle...
...wave after wave of the attackers. "The right squad alone was knocking 'em down 30 at a time," recounted the company commander. Four hours later, the Americans, now grown to two badly mauled companies, set up a defensive perimeter atop a hill-enough to hold off the far bigger V.C. force until artillery and tactical-air support could move in. At last the Viet Cong stopped fighting. The pause was due to virtual annihilation: some 400 to 600 of their estimated 700 at tacking force were dead...
...business is on a contingent-fee basis," boomed the firm's senior partner, a highly spiced ham called "the Colonel." "We know that a bigger verdict is a bigger profit." Eager to share his arts, the Colonel proudly conducted a "tour of the plant...
...like undercover agents, collectors are sneaking their machines into concert halls, theaters, opera houses and nightclubs and taking home more than a memory of an evening's performance. The most popular battery-powered recorder being used is the $375 German-made Uher 4000, which is not much bigger than a cigar box. It can record up to three hours of music on one reel of tape with surprisingly good quality. The 16-in. "dynamic telemicrophone" costs another $395, but is guaranteed to provide "near-professional sound" from the most distant balcony...