Word: mortalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Newmark is a giant but he has some more mortal-sized companions who may be the key to a Columbia title. Against Cornell two sophomores, Jim McMillian and Al Dotson, knifed at will through the Big Red defense and then inflicted innumerable humiliations on the Ithacan offense. The final element in the Lion victory was the hot shooting of 6-3 junior Roger Walaszek...
...success of Waterfront, a collection of vignettes drawn from assignments as a San Diego reporter, enabled Miller to give up newspapering, but he always retained a feel for the short take and the simple truth-notably with his boyhood adventures in 1933's The Beginning of a Mortal...
Florentine Jews who had managed to survive under Mussolini were suddenly in mortal danger. And to Hermann Goring and other shrewd predators, the wealth of Florentine art was irresistible. Long before the Allies approached the city, Wolf had assigned himself three dangerous tasks: to save lives, to prevent the plunder of the city's art, and to keep Florence from assault by having it declared an open city...
...since Polyneices' sister Antigone went to her death trying to give him a proper burial has anyone had as much trouble getting interred as the late showman Billy Rose. For 20 months, Billy's mortal remains have lain in temporary storage while his two sisters, Polly and Miriam, fought with his executors over how much should be paid for his mausoleum, and by whom. Now the body has been entombed at last, in a $125,000 white granite shrine in a Westchester County, N.Y., cemetery. The inscription reads: "Billy Rose-the fabulous legend who is really real...
...would like to argue that something of this sort may be happening in the nation at this time. Nothing is more clear than that a certain kind of youthfulness has now passed us. Strangely, it has done so in a time dimension surprisingly human, if not indeed mortal. What has been called, and properly, the American epoch began -- what? -- say thirty years ago when it developed that Europe had lost control over events, and would descend into destruction, impotence and ruin. Thereafter, America would dominate, and for a time command events. And this was so whether we would have...