Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still tied, 2-2. In the first half of the 19th, the Red Sox scored two runs. But the White Sox came storming back with three and won the game, 5-4. It had taken the teams a record 36 innings to settle two successive games.* After that glorious comeback, the limp Chicago fans expected their heroes to sweep the fourth game for an even break. The White Sox led, 2-1, going into the ninth, but lost, 3-2. The buster-upper: Clyde Vollmer. It was the sixth time in seven games that he had knocked in the winning...
...long march," opened at the Peking People's Art Theater. At a rally in Peking, spotlights lit up giant portraits of the Red pantheon, including Mao Tse-tung, Liu Shao-chi, Chou Enlai, Chu Teh, Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin. Said Liu: "Our party is the greatest, most glorious and most consistently correct party in the history of China. As Comrade Mao has said, 'The victory we have so far achieved is only the first.' " Planes roared overhead and scattered leaflets on the crowd below. The message: "Resist American Imperialism...
Writing recently in London's Sunday Express, British Columnist Beverly Baxter (member of Parliament from Southgate) addressed himself to a popular subject-that curious aspect of British sportsmanship which seems to make Britons "prouder of a stubborn defeat than of a glorious victory...
...Lifeman happens to be a writer, he knows how to disarm the critics, e.g., one Lifeman dedicated his book "TO PHYLLIS, in the hope that one day God's glorious gift of sight may be restored to her," which made the reviewers feel it would be rude to pan the book. (They did not know that Phyllis was the author's 96-year-old great-grandmother.) Smart writership includes the use of "O.K.-words," e.g., diathesis, mystique, and classique, and deference to O.K. fellow writers, meaning chiefly Kafka and Rilke (who, "it is believed . . . will still be absolutely...
...their thumbs and by their toes, and burn them alive. Then they unleash a pack of hungry lions, and the stands go wild. So do the lions. So does the movie audience. There hasn't been anything like it in cinema history. If only it were in glorious Technicolor...