Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bottom of the sixth, enormous bolts of lightning made the game some-what hazardous, and a heavy rain made it impossible to continue. After the sky cleared up briefly, the players rounded out the bottom of the sixth before an empty grandstand. YALE AB R H RBI Sewall, 3b 2 0 0 0 Bartlett, cf 3 0 0 0 Raymond, lf 3 2 1 0 Hunsaker, 1b 3 0 3 1 Levick, rf 2 0 0 0 Titus, c 3 0 1 1 Grasso, 2b 3 0 0 0 Cody, ss 2 0 0 0 Bourne...
...Catchers. Except for G.M. and Ford, which crouch like two huge beasts across the road, fair buildings are low and airy rather than tall or massive. Where in 1939 France's imposing showcase rose like a grandstand beside the Lagoon of Nations, now stands IBM's egg, poised above a fantastic forest of steel trees. Across the pool, hovers the huge coffin-on-props of the Bell Telephone building, designed by Harrison & Abramovitz and Henry Dreyfus...
...Friday night crowd at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway was in a festive mood. In the grandstand, beer cans rattled and pari-mutuel machines beat a steady thunk, thunk, thunk. In the Cloud Casino, champagne corks popped and waiters served steaks. For some, it was just a night at the races. But most were drawn there by a fantasy of instant wealth...
...Graveyard. Only at the race track do the old traditions survive. Gentlemen must still wear coats in the clubhouse; horses are still saddled and mounted graciously on the cool grass under the elms behind the peak-roofed grandstand. The annual August yearling auction is still the No. 1 event on a true horseman's social and business calendar; prices on unraced thoroughbreds run as high as $87,000. And Saratoga is still a "graveyard of favorites." It was there, in the 1930 Travers Stakes, that Jim Dandy, a 100-1 shot, galloped through the mud to beat Whichone...
...Dating Year 1 from Dec. 2, 1942, when the first controlled atomic chain reaction was achieved by Enrico Fermi and his associates in the celebrated squash court beneath the grandstand of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. The first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945 from a steel tower at Alamagordo...