Word: coliseums
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dodger Pitcher Don Drysdale is just about the only man to credit the ballplayers themselves. "There are just better hitters around." said he last week, "and they're hitting the long ball." With that, Drysdale stepped up to bat against the Chicago Cubs at the Coliseum, belted his second home run of the season...
...HOUSE ON COLISEUM STREET (242 pp.)-Shirley Ann Grau-Knopf...
...house on Coliseum Street live two half sisters with their mother, who is just going through her fifth husband. All three are plagued by vague fears of death and desertion, and they ease them in various ways-the mother by marrying every man she meets instead of "just sleeping with them," the younger daughter by sleeping with everybody she cannot bear to marry, and the older daughter, Joan, by riding New Orleans streetcars and listening far into the night to Wagner's Liebestod. Boredom and jealousy of her sister lead Joan into an affair, and soon she finds herself...
...lavish Bayside nightclub had their checks picked up by Puyat's genial brother. At 3 in the morning, a Puyat lieutenant silenced the band and ordered the delegates back to their hotels to "wait for further instructions" for next day's convention at Manila's Coliseum. As rural delegates weaved out into the sultry night, an exhausted nightclub hostess said, "Will I be glad when the convention's over and these hill billies go home...
There was a car for almost every taste as the U.S.'s fifth International Automobile Show opened in Manhattan's huge Coliseum last week. More than 400 new models were on display from 40 automakers in ten nations. Even Detroit, which previously conceded the spotlight at the show to foreign competition, turned out in force to introduce its new bucket-seat brigade-the new generation of compacts that are built on the old body shells but emphasize sports-car interiors...