Word: ig
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imaginative phrase pins a character to the reader's consciousness. Jimmy Tal-lant's lonely face "made you think of telephone poles leaning infinitely on along a highway that went forever toward the mountains." A sub-moronic deputy is "the third best shot at the pool hall"; ig-year-old Cissy was "poised that summer at a moment of femininity so intense that her virginity seemed scandalously out of order in the universe...
...York Herald Tribune's late rac-ig expert (TIME...
Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia (June ig-Sept. 30): a young (five-year-old) bidder for the tourist trade, featuring Yugoslav music in a Riviera-style setting. Among the guest artists: American Negro Soprano Lenora Lafayette and a Smith College choir, plus ballet and folk-music groups...
...Templer kept on being tough, regardless. Soon his toughness began to tell. At-Ipoh, three men in tattered uniforms, poor shoes and sugarbowl haircuts ran out of the jungle, crying: "We are bandits surrendering." Fed and allowed to go back, they brought out ten comrades, including a ig-year-old girl who said: "I want to forget all about the nightmare since I foolishly left home...
...Next day, thanks to the luck of the draw, Sedgman ousted his teammate, Hoad; Mulloy, playing one of the best games of his career, outlasted Rosewall jn five sets. The other semifinalists: Rose, Aussie No. 3, who whipped Dick Savitt, the U.S.'s No. 2, in straight sets; ig-year-old Ham Richardson, the U.S.'s No. 7, who outlasted Straight Clark in five sets...