Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seemed most likely that the answer lay in stress, or more precisely, the reaction to stress. Many of the Haitians were even poorer than their South Carolina counterparts, but if they literally did not know where their next meal was coming from, they refused to worry about it. The research team was unanimous that the Haitians slept more, worried less, lived at a slower, less stressful pace (although they were obliged by lack of transportation to take more exercise). Said Dr. Groom: "The life of the American Negro is inherently more competitive...
...fisherman, Inao is tall for a Japanese (5 ft. 9 in., 165 Ibs.), is nicknamed "Sai," which means rhinoceros. He began his baseball career as a catcher ("The school team was short of a catcher, and I did not know the catcher's position was scorned"), switched to pitching in high school; signed by the Nishitetsu Lions, Inao helped pitch his team to pennants in 1956 and 1957, won a total of 56 games in two years. This year, with the season two-thirds gone, the Lions were 10½ games out of first place-despite the fact that...
...Unlike Callas, Tebaldi did not have to claw her way to the top: she was a success almost from the first time she opened her mouth professionally, and her career since has unfolded with a dreamlike simplicity. Her very serenity sometimes baffles colleagues who know the backstage thimblerigging that accompanies the rise to operatic fame. A shy woman who speaks almost no English and understands it imperfectly, Tebaldi rarely mixes with fellow artists. Nevertheless, she is almost universally liked and respected. One coworker, in a sincere but dubious compliment, insisted that she reminded him of "sheep and cows and beautiful...
...been working hard on his UNESCO mural. Its imaginative images combine childlike delight with echoes of primitive Catalan signs and symbols. Once Miró destroyed one whole wall when it failed to please him, and began again. "Guessing the color of ceramic is like cooking a biscuit-you never know how it will come out," explained one expert ruefully. Miró's principal aim: "To make the murals harmonize with the architecture...
...played the first couple of numbers straight-the melody always there, easy and obvious. Then she leered from between her big rhinestone earrings and let the crowd know that she was about to take off. She basted Lazy River with a wild boogie beat. Her knees bounced up and down like runaway jackhammers. She jumped from her bench as if kicked by a mule, grimaced like an ulcer case on the way out, writhed like a belly dancer, sucked her thumb, tugged at her bra, groaned. Sometimes she struck some keys with her elbow, but she never missed a note...