Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start of round six a lump appeared under Patterson's left eye. Towards the middle of the round, Clay landed a series of combinations to Patterson's jaw and then retreated as Floyd wobbled, sagged, and then slumped to one knee for a mandatory eight count...
...from the imported-delicacies department. Few others ate that well. At Bloomingdale's, men and women slept in the home-furnishings and medical departments. Restaurants and bars did a booming business?though many rely on electricity to make their ice, pump their water, cook their food, wash the dishes, count the receipts, and of course light the premises...
...burning hulk sank in 400 fathoms (2,400 ft.) of the Bahamas' Northwest Providence Channel. At last count, 458 persons had lived through the disaster; 91 had died. The cause of the blaze was a mystery. All that remained of the Yarmouth Castle was four empty lifeboats, scattered debris and an oil slick...
...came close to describing the indescribable spirit of adventure that is instinctive to mankind and has been intensified in America, which was discovered and explored and grew to greatness under adventure's drive. De Tocqueville translated adventure into "individualism," and suspected it would lead to despotism. But Count Adam Gurowski, a Pole who settled in the U.S., wrote in 1857: "Excitement is one of the most powerful springs in the American. It is so contagious that newcomers, after a comparatively short residence, are affected and carried away...
Eyewitnesses to Fu's execution are baffled when the corpse count of London's foggy Limehouse district shows an alarming upswing. The victims are strangled with crimson Tibetan prayer scarves, the weapons favored by "a gang of Burmese dacoits." Scotland Yard Man Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) thoughtfully eyes the wall where a death mask of his sworn foe hangs as a trophy. "I dreamt that Fu Manchu was still alive," he muses. "I've been uneasy...