Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...verdict was thumbs down. Henry Kissinger did not like the portrait painted by Boston Artist Gardner Cox. One viewer thought it made him look "somewhat a dwarf," and another pronounced it "a rogues' gallery thing." Not surprisingly, the Government, which had commissioned the art to hang in the State Department with Cox's portraits of former Secretaries Dean Acheson and Dean Rusk, rejected it. "We felt that the portrait lacked Mr. Kissinger's expression-the dynamism which exudes from him," said State Department Curator Clement Conger. Cox will be paid $700 in expenses...
...along came sophomore Bob Allen to win a starting berth in the backcourt with better than ten points a game after a virtually non-existent first half of the season. Add Rosey Cox too, who returned to the squad for what seemed like the umpteenth time, but played with earnest dedication...
...miracle. PLAYER G FG-FGA REB. PTS. AVG. B. BANKS 21 125-221 169 327 15.6 B. HOOFT 26 131-268 132 328 12.6 C. BOOKER 26 105-217 114 264 10.2 G. FINE 26 90-184 60 240 9.2 B. ALLEN 25 71-139 76 179 7.2 R. COX 20 43-101 55 123 6.2 R. BENGEL 18 49-118 27 104 5.8 G. ACKERMAN 26 48- 90 78 133 5.1 M. STENHOUSE 44-105 28 99 4.1 M. HADLEY 19 22- 52 31 61 3.2 T. CAREY 8 8- 15 3 16 2.0 C. BAKER...
...130E with Egyptian markings. What if the hijackers saw the plane and panicked? Melling quickly distracted them. Motioning behind him toward the cabin, he shouted loudly, "What was that noise?" The two Palestinians glanced back as the Egyptian plane slid by. "It looks like trouble," whispered Melling to Cox...
Melling: "No! Just keep down and put your guns away!" To Cox: "If they come up the steps, mate, we've had it." Melling reached up and grabbed a fire ax to have something in his hand...