Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a hard day's doom-crying in Manhattan, the Malian diplomats and their families, led by Ambassador Sori Coulibaly, will be able to relax in the Pine Room listening to piped-in Muzak, or stroll through the formal gardens and the three greenhouses. Muscular Malians can choose between a lighted swimming pool, a bowling alley, a championship tennis court housed in a heated, glass-roofed building or, of course, lawn mowing...
Louise Nevelson is an imposing, muscular woman with eyes like augers. Besides the three rooms of golden debris in her house, she maintains two more studios near by-one in a former pizzeria, where she does her "dirty work, my black things," and one a few doors away for her white work. Her material is wood, shaped for utilitarian purposes-and salvaged by her from dumps and antique shops, or donated by friendly driftwood gatherers. For tools she uses an electric band saw, files, and a hammer...
Broad and muscular (5 ft. 8½ in., 175 Ibs.), Muncey started racing outboard motorboats at 14, first drove a limited hydroplane in 1947, when he broke in on smaller boats with 65 m.p.h. top speed. Eight years later, Designer Ted Jones, whose Slo-Mo-Shun IV revolutionized hydro design in 1950, gave Muncey his first crack at the really big boats by picking him to drive the first of Owner Rhodes's Miss Thriftway hydros. Muncey barely missed winning the Gold Cup his first time out, then came on to win in both...
Liston screws his heavy features into a frightening grimace. He swings a vicious right to Polino's jaw. The muscular assistant trainer staggers, spits out a mouthful of teeth, backs off and grabs a golf club to defend himself. Liston draws a gun. Bang! Bang! A red stain spreads slowly where Polino clutches his chest. Sportswriters flee in panic; one newsman from Baltimore cowers behind the fireplace. The TV producer faints dead away...
...suffered permanent brain damage. An accompanying Journal editorial predicts that when statistics on the battered-child syndrome are complete, "It is likely that it will be found to be a more frequent cause of death than such well-recognized and thoroughly studied diseases as leukemia, cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy...