Word: lombardic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...place of retired Paul Hornung; Jim Grabowski at fullback, replacing deported Jim Taylor; Zeke Bratkowski at quarterback, filling in for injured Bart Starr. But the effect was the same - a minimum of razzle-dazzle and a maximum of crunch. "When it stops paying off for us," grunted Coach Lombard!, "then we'll make some changes...
Sandburg grew up in Galesburg, Ill., where his Swedish father was a railroad worker. He quit school at 13, hopped a westbound freight at 17 to see the land he was to celebrate. Later Galesburg's Lombard College accepted him on the basis of a special qualifying examination. After studying there for nearly four years, he hoboed in the East, then became a newspaper reporter, a vocation he pursued on and off as a correspondent and columnist for Chicago dailies until...
...LOMBARD...
...Alain Lombard, 25, from Paris, was easily the most dashing. He commanded the podium like an admiral on the bridge, embracing the orchestra with grand sweeping gestures of his long arms. His attack was marked by an easy, graceful masculinity, at times almost overpowering in its intensity. Conductor of the Lyon State Opera since 1963, he is the most experienced of the four winners. One of the judges, Composer Gian Carlo Menotti, announced that he had invited Lombard to guest-conduct at the Spoleto Festival this summer, a bonus prize to be awarded on a regular basis to future winners...
...confirmed dead and 83 missing, and they feared there would be no other survivors. Said one worker who had luckily escaped: "The poor devils never had a chance. Those not killed outright must have frozen to death in a matter of hours." At a news conference in Geneva, Geologist Lombard said that the disaster had been "completely unpredictable...