Word: furiously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Byron Nelson in 1945, when many pros were away in service. No one has ever won so much money so early; when Palmer set the one-year record ($75,263) in 1960, he had picked up only $48,000 by the middle of May. In one furious, six-week stretch that culminated with his play-off victory over Johnny Pott last week in the Colonial National Invitational, Palmer won four tournaments. Said Pott: "He's just too tough...
...forget that Fox lost $22.5 million on last year's operations, and next year's hopes rest entirely with the $30 million production of Cleopatra. The fact that Liz Taylor's take from Cleopatra will exceed $1,300,000 brought a bitter joke; a furious stockholder nominated her for the board of directors...
Then on Monday, May 14, came what Wall Streeters hopefully called "the selling climax." In one furious hour during the morning, selling reached near-panic proportions. The index went into a 14-point tailspin to a low of 626. The highspeed Teletype tape that reports New York Stock Exchange transactions was so swamped that it fell 34 minutes behind-its worst performance in nearly 30 years...
Sachar's call for teachers brought a flood of lively volunteers. Trustee Eleanor Roosevelt still teaches a course on the U.N., bringing the immediacy of what "Franklin"hoped for it in 1945 or what U Thant said at tea last week. With his usual furious energy, Conductor Leonard Bernstein developed the music department. Archibald MacLeish, W. H. Auden and e. e. cummings have lectured on modern poetry. Arthur Miller taught drama, and Columnist Max Lerner commutes from Manhattan to give a course on American civilization. Says Dean Clarence Berger: "We keep telling students they're taking people...
...boxing fans had seen them rougher and tougher. The difference was that seldom had a nationwide TV audience been treated to so shocking a reminder of boxing's basic brutality. In the ring at Madison Square Garden, Welterweight Champion Benny ("Kid") Paret, 25, was battered unconscious by a furious twelfth-round assault from Challenger Emile Griffith...