Word: knotted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Jayne Mansfield, 27, sometime cinemaspirant, who reported that she was "so thrilled I'd like to have 500 more babies," and Miklos ("Mickey") Hargitay, 30, knot-muscled, Hungarian-born Mr. Universe of 1956: their second child, second son; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...true we aren't dead yet and won't know until we are but so far we've done fine and have two children, spaced right, and they will be our family since we believe in birth control. Msgr. De Blanc ties a good knot. As a prophet and a psychiatrist, he falls flat on his face...
...meter hurdles, Ohio's sandy-haired Glenn Davis, 25, flashed around the course in effortless stride, eased up at the finish and still won in 50.1 seconds to tie his Olympic record. In the discus, Al Oerter, 24, wound himself into a knot, then exploded for a throw of 193 ft. 9½ in., 2 ft. 10½ in. short of the world record. Whirling mightily, Boston's Hal Connolly, 28, threw the hammer 224 ft. 4½ in., just 11½ in. short of his world record. Patriarch of the U.S. whales, Shotputter Parry O'Brien...
...saying, he pinned a Legion of Merit on the much-decorated chest of Navy Captain Edward Latimer Beach last week. Ned Beach, 42, had just made the kind of history that even Presidents can envy: under his command the world's largest submarine, the nuclear, 3O-knot-plus U.S.S. Triton, had completed the first underwater circumnavigation of the globe...
...Separate Peace, by John Knowles. A first novel that is exceptionally well written and, rarer still, thoroughly controlled, about a schoolboy's discovery of a knot of homicidal jealousy within himself...