Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brown's defense is their forte. Besides goalies McGinniss and Burns, Brown boasts junior defensemen Curt Bennett and Steve Wormith. Bennett is a big (6'2"), high-scoring defenseman who was second team All-Ivy as a sophomore. Wormith, a fullback on the Bruin football team, is an excellent body checker...
...Curt Gowdy once said, "When the going gets tough, the tough get going," and Winthrop House has proved the great sports expert right once more by rallying from its ninth-place ranking in the fall Strauss competition with three powerful winter teams...
Before Hoffman entered the room, Parker told the committee that they should have resolved the dispute in Colorado, not the night before the race. According to Captain Curt Canning, Douglas Robie, president of the USOC, snarled back, "You're damn right that's when we should have taken care...
...Denver airport, the crew was rebuked for wearing OPHR buttons while the officials ignored the black girls on the track and field team who wore them. Curt Canning asked John Carlos if the officials had challenged the button-wearers on the men's track and field team. Carlos said, "They know that if they give us any shit, we'll tell them to go fuck themselves." Then Carlos added, "Do you know why they gave you shit?" "Because you're white and they don't know what you're doing with us black bastards...
From Hong Kong to Paris to New York, TIME correspondents filed their contributions. In London, Bureau Chief Curt Prendergast tried to track down Lord Harlech; in Dublin, a stringer searched out the remaining Kennedy relatives. Washington's Bonnie Angelo, summoned from a Detroit union hall where Hubert Humphrey was promising higher social-security pensions, hurried eastward to deal with the world of million-dollar yachts and $3,000 dresses. From San Francisco, Bureau Chief Judson Gooding filed a personal reminiscence on the Jackie he knew when they were both students at the Sorbonne...