Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...averaging 131.2 m.p.h. in his 1966 Plymouth; at Hampton, Ga. It was the first major victory in two years for Hurtubise, who narrowly escaped death in 1964 when his Indianapolis-type roadster crashed and caught fire during a race in Milwaukee-leaving him with three broken ribs, a punctured lung and serious burns over 40% of his body...
...Parrish, 95, Quaker-born dean of U.S. illustrators, whose diaphanous damsels, Homeric heroes, devilish dwarfs and capering clowns enlivened magazine covers (Collier's, Harper's Weekly), made dull books popular, and helped turn Jell-O and Fisk tires into bestsellers by virtue of their ads; of chronic lung disease; in Plainfield, N.H. In 1964, with a retrospective show in Manhattan, Parrish was hailed as a precursor of pop art, and responded by saying: "How can these avant-garde people get anything out of me? I'm so hopelessly commonplace." Probably his most lasting single work, bought...
...Lung Alley. Dabbing tears from his eyes, Dubinsky, 74, had his resignation read before a meeting of his directors, who forthwith appointed a committee to persuade him to stay on. But he was not to be swayed. "I don't want to die in my boots," he insisted. "I don't want a free funeral...
...last union stalwarts of New Deal days, Polish-born Dubinsky as a youth was banished to Siberia for calling a strike against his father's bakery, escaped, emigrated to the U.S., and joined the union at 19 as a buttonhole maker in Manhattan's "lung blocks" (so called because of their high TB incidence...
...Americans talk every day about our founding fathers of the eighteenth century. Our founding fathers lived in the period of the Emperor Chlien-lung, who ruled for sixty years at the height of a two thousand-year development of imperial monarchy. Chairman Mao doesn't seem to know it, but he owes something of his style and world view to his predecessors in Peking in ages past. Since we have now given up calling Communism a great international monolith, everywhere and always the same, it is high time for us to examine the Chineseness which is now showing through...