Word: bowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Empire heavyweight champion, but he was older by eight years and outweighed by 21 Ibs.; then, too, there was all that tender scar tissue around Cooper's battered eyes. "I'm afraid our 'Enery will 'ave to 'it 'im over the bonce with Bow bells to beat 'im," admitted one Londoner. But Clay was so brash, so, well, so American ("That cripple," snorted Cassius. "I'll whup him like I was his Daddy") that Britons still paid up to 6 guineas ($17.64) for a rain-spattered seat, and raided the cooky...
Harry Parker, in his first year as coach of the Crimson heavies, will have five sophomores in the Crimson boat for the race. They include Bob Schwarz at bow, Tom Pollock at four, Mike Soper at five, Paul Gunderson at six, and Geoff Picard at stroke. Elsewhere in the boat will be Nick Bancroft at two, Harry Pollock at three, Spencer Borden at seven, and Ted Washburn, the coxswain...
...rich, well-fed Chinese minority finally exploded after a fistfight between an Indonesian student and a Chinese student at Bandung's Institute of Technology. When a youthful rioter was shot by police in one town, mobs with bamboo clubs herded Chinese from their houses and made them bow their heads as his funeral procession passed by. Firing over the heads of a screaming throng in Bandung, police brought down a power line which electrocuted two Indonesians...
...impressive guest," was expounding on Ireland. "Only one detail was going wrong," writes Beaverbrook. "The butler was obviously tight." Furiously, their hostess scribbled a note and handed it to the butler, who put it "on a big and beautiful salver and, walking unsteadily to Austen Chamberlain, with a deep bow presented the message." It read: "You are drunk-leave the room at once...
...piloted his craft into the atmosphere, and his communications blacked out. After four minutes of excruciating silence from space, he was sighted by radar-and moments later, a roar of triumph came from sailors aboard the carrier Kearsarge, 115 miles east-southeast of Midway. Four miles off the port bow, Cooper's orange and white chute floated down through a brilliant blue sky. He was safe-he had done what his equipment could...