Word: muscularity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Matronly and shrill, Aggie seems an anomaly in the Herald-Examiner's mannish, prankish city room. But in her 36 years as a journalist (30 on the Herald-Examiner, 15 as its city editor), Aggie has kept such a muscular grip on the news of L.A.'s seamy side that no one thinks of the greying grandmother as an interloper in a man's world. Years away from her reputation as the town's best crime reporter, she still keeps up a running dialogue with the underworld that helps her paper to impressive scoops...
...Olympic Champion Ralph Boston in last year's U.S.Soviet track meet in Moscow. Preparing for the fourth U.S.-Soviet track meet in Palo Alto, Calif, next month the Russians had two other new records to announce in the ladies' division. At a meet in Leipzig, East Germany, muscular Shotputter Tamara Press had boosted her record with the 8.8-lb. women's shot to 60 ft. 10¼ in.; at the same meet, Broad Jumper Tatyana Shelkanova broke her own record with a leap...
...Forster and John Galsworthy. Swinnerton's talent was somehow overshadowed by his contemporaries. H. G. Wells ruefully confessed to Arnold Bennett that Swinnerton "achieves a perfection that you and I never get within streets of." In Death of a Highbrow, the perfection is still evident in the cool, muscular style, and in his merciless view of man's behavior relieved by what Bennett called Swinnerton's "mysterious touch of fundamental benevolence...
...Muscular students were perfecting gymnastic displays to celebrate the 43rd anniversary of Kemal Ataturk's campaign of liberation from the Ottoman pashas and their Western allies. In the southern town of Mardin near the Syrian border, thousands of fans rioted during a soccer game, then fought off police and soldiers who tried to put down the melee. Nightclubbers at the Istanbul Hilton twisted to an Italian band; pub crawlers in the Ankara Palas Hotel leered at "Velvet Veronique," a stripteaser from Paris billed as "Queen of the Crazy Horse Saloon." Such was normalcy in Turkey...
...scale ballet perform ance in White House history.- (The dancers had been hastily rehearsing all day, under the direction of choreographer Robbins and the approving eye of the First Lady, who graciously allowed them to use the Green Room as a temporary dressing room.) Glancing at one of the muscular male dancers. Vice President Lyndon Johnson whispered to Jackie that "they make me feel flabby...