Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chronic invalid needing daily injections of more than $1,000,000 in U.S. and West German aid. Apartment houses are rising from the ruins at the rate of one three-room apartment every 30 minutes. West Berlin's production of precision instruments and appliances (all of them lightweight, high-value goods which can be economically air-shipped in case of another blockade) is up 30% over 1953. Within three years, the half-city expects to be able to stand on its own economic legs...
...Francisco's Cow Palace, Jimmy Carter, a workmanlike lightweight when he feels like fighting, spent 14 rounds belting Champion Paddy DeMarco before he beat him to the canvas for good in the 15th and regained the title that he lost last spring (TIME, March...
...football's little men completed their 21st organized season when Princeton edged Rutgers for the crown of the Eastern Intercollegiate 150-Pound Football League. While big-time All-Americans and local unsung heroes monopolized the Cambridge scene, this victory went largely unnoticed, particularly since the Crimson had given up lightweight football over 20 years...
...around Princeton and New Brunswick, N.J.--where big-time, heavyweight competition began in 1869 and organized lightweight football held its first championship in 1934--the game rated banner headlines. For local 150-pound enthusiasts, it was a repeat of the first championship between these two elevens. That year Rutgers played to the crown before 10,000, defeating Princeton, and carrying off honors in the newly-organized 150-pound football league...
...Authority put its pen to a $3,881,000 contract to build an entirely new system of transportation. The jammed, jolting old subway shuttle train between Grand Central Station and Times Square, half a mile crosstown, will be replaced by a gigantic conveyor belt carrying an endless chain of lightweight passenger cars. Riders will step onto a belt moving at 1½ m.p.h., and from there into cars which will then speed up to 15 m.p.h. for the two-minute trip to Times Square and slow down again to let them off. Builder of the new shuttle: Akron...