Word: frame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rope. The corpse was cut down, carried to a corner of the prison grounds where, in swirls of ground fog, it was thrust into an aluminum oven with a chimney at one end. A gas fire burned for two hours, reducing Eichmann's light frame to a handful of ashes. While the body was cremated, black smoke poured into the sky. None of the watching officials and reporters said a word, but the memory of the evil holocausts of Auschwitz was inevitable...
...Indian protectorate of Sikkim, Ambassador to India John Kenneth Galbraith decided to dress native. Though most good-sized Sikkimese stand somewhere south of his chest, Galbraith (6 ft. 8 in.) surprisingly found a spotted mandarin coat from a bazaar in the capital, Gangtok, that neatly draped his gangling frame. Looking like an unhappy giraffe in his new outfit, Galbraith attended a dinner given by the Maharaja of Sikkim. Later, the younger members of the ambassador's party twisted until 3 a.m. after getting lessons from the Maharaja's teenage granddaughter, Princess Cocoola...
Last month, in the 156-mile Paris-to-Brussels race. Van Looy was sprinting from deep in the pack when he smashed head-on into a tangle of fallen cyclists near the France-Belgium border. Slithering over the cobblestones, he fell heavily on his own bike frame, gashed his shoulder badly, and was carted off to the hospital...
Bernstein singled in Terry Bartolet in the third frame to increase the Harvard lead, which was thoughtful in view of the fact that Northeastern picked up another run in the fourth...
...harness-racing sulky whose spare, delicate frame of hickory and fragile, bicycle-spoked wheels have not changed in more than 50 years...