Word: drowned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Naked Truth. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Juanita Bradley, 27, won a divorce after testifying that her husband tried to drown her at the beach because she refused to play strip poker, complained to the court: "I don't even know how to play poker...
...linesmen got him nowhere. "Get on with it!" called an irritated fan, but Seixas was through. Deft and deadly, Australia's young (21) Ken Rosewall ran out the match 6-3, 3-6, 6-8, 6-3, 7-5. While Vic ungreixously stopped his ears to drown out the cheers for the victor, Rosewall walked off to wait for his Sydney neighbor and tennis mate to overpower Rhodes Scholar Ham Richardson of Westfield, N.J., 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4, and assure Wimbledon's first all-Australian final ever...
...when necessary, fight as a team." At Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day, Army Secretary Wilbur Brucker overflowed with tributes to the "magnificent Navy" and the "great Air Force with intrepid pilots." Other resonant military voices joined Brucker and Radford in three-part harmony-but they failed to drown out the dissonant undertones of continuing interservice clashes over roles and missions in the age of the missile and the atom (TIME, June 4). Among last week's sour notes...
...Himmler offers peace without Hitler's consent. Eva's brother-in-law is shot, on Hitler's orders, as a deserter; and on Hitler's orders a Berlin subway, full of German women and children, is flooded to keep the Russians out of it. Thousands drown...
...make do with what they have. Cortland's Swimming Coach Dr. James E. Counsilman was even willing to work with a sandy-haired freshman named George E. Breen, whose best effort for the 440-yd. freestyle was a dismally slow 7:30. "He looked as though he might drown," says Counsilman, remembering that sad performance in the fall of 1952. Breen thought the coach was kidding when Counsilman took him aside and said...