Word: bowlings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...made little effort to conceal their contempt when Mao Tse-tung's troops entered in 1949, chuckled with sophisticated delight at such jokes as the story of a young officer fresh from the caves of Yenan who washed the dust from his rice ration in a hotel toilet bowl. "Just wait and see," went a confident Shanghai refrain. "We'll change the Communists...
...goes to bed late and rises late. Usually he prepares his own breakfast-an unappetizing bowl of strained oatmeal and a glass of milk which, he hopes, are good for his ulcer-and eats in the white-walled living room decorated with two portraits of his tall, attractive wife and a Renoir landscape that Ed gave Sylvia this year for their 25th wedding anniversary. Then he lights the first of the day's many cigarettes and is ready for the phone calls that his secretaries, Carmine Santullo and Jean Bombard, have been holding at bay all morning. When...
While the patient in Fitzsimons Hospital ate his first solid food-a bowl of oatmeal-Dr. White consulted with his associates, visited the President, and studied the three cardiograms that had been made up to that time. He and three of the doctors attending President Eisenhower issued a statement which was read by Hagerty: "The President has had a moderate attack of coronary thrombosis without complications." Asked by the press for a clarification of the word "moderate," Dr. White replied, through Hagerty: The attack"was "neither mild nor was it serious...
Last at night, to any empty horseshoe, he might also have relayed the final score from the Chocolate Bowl in Hersey...
Then Billy Booe, a Bridgeport, Conn. businessman (corsets and brassieres) who made a name for himself (1946-48) kicking field goals and points after touchdown in the Yale Bowl, pushed with surprising persistence into the semifinals. Booe himself had not expected to last so long. "I didn't bring enough clothes with me," he complained. "I expected to be on my way home Tuesday...