Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buffs had been singing the blues because of injuries and poor pre-Australian performances. Only Coach Jim Kelly was unperturbed, and last week reports from Melbourne about warmup sessions proved him correct. Minnesota's Fortune Gordien ambled out to the practice field and spun his discus in a casual. 195-ft. toss that bettered his own world record. California's Cy Young, holder of the 1952 Olympic javelin mark (242 ft. ¾ in.), broke that record by flinging his spear...
This first novel is the year's most beautifully written love story. Set in Budapest in the lost era between the two world wars, it begins with a casual pickup on the Danube Corso and ends in heartbreak as poignant as the last act of Camille. The book, like the play, is about a girl with tuberculosis, but Author Boros' Dame aux Camélias is no languishing tragedienne drowning in a sea of self-sacrifice. Instead, young Lalla is self-sufficient, cheeky, preoccupied not with "how to live but how to stay alive...
...accompanied by Soviet transports bringing technicians, radar and ground equipment, had landed in Syria. This report fitted in with the recent visit to Russia of Syrian President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose government and army are more thickly infested with Communists than any other Arab state. His was no casual visit. His wife, his daughter, his Foreign Minister and staff. Minister of Defense. Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Propaganda and the manager of the Central Bank of Syria had flown to the Crimea with an escort of Soviet fighter planes. They returned last week with smiles of satisfaction...
...answer to charges of brusqueness, friends cite his willingness to give "a helping hand to people who are seriously in trouble," and his warmth as father of three sons. A casual visitor in his office commented that "he charms everyone with his interest, and extends this feeling of 'having the Dean's ear' to the vast numbers of people who seek...
...bitterest enemies, he is a publicity-seeking menace; to the casual observer, he seems a harmless buffoon; to the Harvard administration he is an ever-increasing annoyance; to the Harvard student, he is the source of a possible riot; but to the citizens of East Cambridge, he is simply "Al," their friend and protector...