Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRAIN. Boxcars full of French art are the rolling stock of Director John Frankenheimer's muscular World War II drama about a Nazi colonel (Paul Scofield) and a Resistance leader (Burt Lancaster), playing tug-of-war with trains...
...spare the men. It must have seemed a dull question to Director John Frankenheimer, who simply shunts morality onnto a siding and concentrates on the conflict between a fanatic villain and an athletic hero, playing tug of war with real trains. The results are exhilarating, but only in a muscular...
...above the high levels of a year ago, and automakers talked increasingly of a 9,000,000-car year. Steel production reached an alltime high-2,757,000 tons in a week. Though steel and autos will almost certainly ease off from those record rates, there are many other muscular forces in the economy. Last week gains were reported in building permits, manufacturing orders, retail sales, personal income, employment, profits, dividends and capital spending...
...team meeting to go over the scouting reports on the week's opponent. The coaches handed out a 20-page brochure on Yale: the roster, statistics, play diagrams, defense diagrams, and on and on. Bob Gongola, the offensive backfield coach, had scouted them. Gongola, tall, blond, and muscular, with a flat-top haircut, stands out by inches when the coaches pose for pictures. He is, in his own immortal phrase, "a big stud...
...bats to plastic bags. Most of the victims were under four; one-quarter died. If all such cases were reported, say some experts, the total would reach 10,000 a year. Many doctors suspect that more U.S. children are killed by their parents than by auto accidents, leukemia or muscular dystrophy. But the problem is more than medical. "Battered-Child Syndrome"-the telltale symptoms of child beating-has become the law's latest headache...