Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those in Liston's camp seem to stand in genuine awe of the 30-year-old giant who may yet prove to be one of the most powerful fighters in history. In training since the first week in May, he has trimmed his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 220 Ibs. of bulging muscle, and he is one man who knows his own strength. Liston literally has knocked the stuffing out of a 45-lb. punching bag with one swipe of his right fist. He laughs disdainfully while Trainer Reddish slams a 12-lb. medicine ball into...
...Pianist Van Cliburn) and not far behind Trumpeter Louis Armstrong's (21,000 in 1957). But she was still an octave or two behind Lewisohn's champion crowd pullers: Harry Belafonte (over 25,000 in 1956) and Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza, whose virile basso cantante and brawny frame also drew over 25,000 fans...
Indeed, a good many of Chestertown's Negroes do live in conditions appalling to whites, and to Negroes accustomed to better things. Their thin wood-frame houses which cover two unpaved streets near the center of town are cracked and peeling. One wonders (as, most likely, people have wondered for the past 30 years) just how much longer these houses can last. Many of these Negroes could afford better, but habit and the relatively low rents set by their colored landlords have kept them immobile...
Chestertown is segregated to its very roots. Negroes, of course, catch it worst, most of them living in down-at-the-heels wood frame houses, unable to find employment in the town's stores or service in its restaurants. But Jews don't fare so well either, and for the real Shore citizen no one born elsewhere can ever be regarded quite as an equal. "If you're not born here you'll always be an out-sider" the town's mayor told a group recently. What he meant was that only the natural elect can arrive at relevant judgements...
...collection, and the well-known Tilling the Vineyard, by Toulouse-Lautrec. The market value of the haul was estimated at about $1,200,000, and the thieves were obviously connoisseurs. They not only took the best; they also knew which paintings were too delicate to be cut from their frames and would have to be taken frame and all. Said one insurance assessor working on the case: "I would call this a masterpiece of crime...