Word: hatched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tony Lynch snapped a Harvard record with a 2.5 clocking in the 400-meter hurdles 0.8 under Hank Hatch's old mark. Lynch won the unseeded heat of the hurdles, but took only fourth in the event overall. Vla McArdle of Manhattan...
William Holden plays a hard-drinking hack screenwriter, given exactly 48 hours to hatch a movie script. He is assisted by Audrey Hepburn, the loveliest little stenographer a hack ever had, who reports to his Paris hotel suite with an overnight bag full of Givenchy originals. While falling in love on the job, Hepburn and Holden imagine themselves to be the hero and heroine of a movie within a movie: a master criminal steals the print of a film called The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower and holds it for ransom. Got it? Forget it. Lacking inspiration, Writer George...
...region was a cave on the banks of the Ohio on the Kentucky-Illinois border. More than 50 feet wide and 140 feet deep, the cave provided all that a hardened criminal could ask for: prostitutes "none cranny, gambling in another; heaps of counterfeit coin; and an escape hatch in the rear. The cave, Wellman writes, was the "lair of the worst cutthroats, freebooters and gallows-birds this continent ever witnessed...
...meaningful experience, with its special ways and means that are constant through the years. Clocks and calendars plot out their arbitrary separations, as the womb and the tomb surge on unheeding. When o when? man asks, never knowing, ever sowing. But to hatch a bird he must start with an egg, which contains its own inflexible schedule. See man count...
...recalled, "and found I was still in the wardroom. I got out through a slit in the side and found myself in the ocean, with its surface covered by a six-inch layer of fuel oil." Ten men trapped in the forward section finally forced open a jammed escape hatch and, as they scrambled free, heard men behind them screaming to get out and thrashing in the water-filled hold...