Word: marvels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glandular goon who could do little more than stand beneath the basket and stuff in rebounds. Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain, who leads the N.B.A. in scoring with an average 37.8, stands 7 ft. 2 in., but has the speed and agility to be a marvel were he half a foot shorter. St. Louis' Bob Pettit (6 ft. 9 in.) is quick and graceful, Boston's Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.) is a defensive and rebounding genius, Los Angeles' Elgin Baylor (6 ft. 5 in.) combines the brute strength of a pro football tackle...
...comfortably established in Peking's Peace Hotel, filled with good food in one of the hotel's two restaurants (one European, one Chinese) and then taken to hear the joyful songs of peasants toiling in the communes, to watch workers boosting norms in factories and marvel at pedestrians doing pre-dawn setting-up exercises in the streets. He travels from city to city (each with its own special Peace Hotel) listening to his highly sympathetic, "open-minded" guide point out the similarities between China's agrarian peasant society and Latin America...
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 7--A well-balanced Brown quintet ripped off eight straight points within 55 seconds early in the second half and easily defeated a listless Harvard team, 73-53, at Marvel Gymnasium tonight...
...Marvel. Burnet shared his Nobel, worth $43,625, with towering (6 ft. 4½ in.) British Zoologist Peter Brian Medawar, who has been working on tissue transplants for the past 17 years. Experimenting with laboratory animals, Medawar was among the first to describe the mechanism of the puzzling "rejection reaction"-the process by which the human body develops antibodies similar to those it uses against viruses and bacteria to reject and destroy tissue transplants intended to replace diseased parts...
...foreign must be harmful, and this formula is ground out in a totally undiscriminating fashion with results that are sometimes irritating, sometimes harmful, and sometimes mortally harmful. It is far better to have immunological defenses than not to have them, but this does not mean that we are to marvel at them as evidences of a high and wise design...