Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crash diet; U.S. Foreign Service dispatches to Washington frequently start: "This being the diet season, it is useless ..." A man full of energy and diffuse talents, Sihanouk has been known at various times as a playboy, saxophonist, composer, lyricist, painter, sportsman, linguist, scenarist, cinematographer, Asian method actor and rice-bowl philosopher...
Down over the hills ringing Los Angeles swept the parching devil winds. Humidity dropped below 1% ; it was drier than a desert. The brilliant colors of sumac, greasewood and wild lilac had long faded to dusty brown, and the chaparral crackled and clacked like desiccated bones in a bowl. Then, just before dawn one day last week, the nightmare that Angelenos have well learned to dread happened again. The brush in the hills, ignited by power lines torn to the ground by whistling winds, exploded into flame. With incredible speed, fire raced through the white-collar suburbs of Los Angeles...
Five freshmen boys ran around emptying ashtrays and giving girls ("who looked like they needed it") some of the light wine and fruit punch. They carefully made off with all the pineapple that had been in the punch bowl afterward...
...though, has certain compensations-and Miler O'Hara manages to make the most of them. On his way from the airport to last week's New York Athletic Club Games, he remembered that he had not had dinner. Stopping off at a Manhattan restaurant, he ate a bowl of vegetable soup, a thick sirloin steak, and a heaping plate of mashed potatoes. Then he went out and ran the fastest indoor mile in history...
Salaun is the only amateur to beat Vic Niederhoffer at any time this season. Neiderhoffer spilled Hecksher in a Massachusetts "A" League match; he has beaten former amateur champ Harry Conion, the tournament's fourth seed, twice. But he lost to Salaun in the Middlesex Bowl Tournament over Christmas vacation, and again in the Cowles Invitational in New York just after exams...