Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Yale to the Wall. Nowhere did Genoa's most famous son have such impassioned defenders as in New York City, which at last count boasted 858,601 citizens of Italian descent but only 36,794 Norwegian-Americans. Yale-educated Congressman John Lindsay Republican candidate for mayor, made it sound as if Columbia had been his alma mater all along. "Saying that Columbus did not discover America," declared Lindsay, "is as silly as saying DiMaggio doesn't know anything about baseball or that Toscanini and Caruso were not great musicians." Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose son, Steven, has a Norwegian...
...choking in a new kind of war. Their massive mon soon assaults never materialized-be cause quick-scrambling allied planes all too often flew off through the rainstorms to blast a company apart before it could attack. Whereas in the first flush of their summer successes the Reds could count on an eye for an eye, by August the kill ratio had dropped to 1 to 3 against them-and they are likely to lose 27,000 men in action this year against an estimated 12,000 for the allies (including 1,000 Americans...
...third hit off Sandy all day and the last. Earl Battey looked at a called third strike, and up came Bob Allison, a dangerous hitter. "He was the tying run," Koufax said later, "so no pitch I threw him got any more than an inch of the plate." The count went to two and two. Rearing back, Koufax threw. Allison swung. Pop! The ball slammed into Catcher Roseboro's mitt. In the locker room, world champions for the third time in seven years, richer by $10,000 per man, the Dodgers showered in champagne and gawked like schoolboys...
Talk Thesaurus. One of Berenson's frequent guests, Count Umberto Morra, had bad manners and took notes; and these notes, recorded between 1931 and 1940, have now been assembled in a book that will not soon find its equal as a thesaurus of talk...
...action thought appropriate by--at your count--105 of the 242 scholars was to sign the counterpetition pleading noninvolvement. "This is neither an endorsement nor a criticism. . . .we merely object to this irresponsible form of protest...