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Word: offs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming out into the light for the first time since he disgraced himself by winning the Nobel Prize for literature, Russia's Novelist Boris Pasternak listened to a performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. Earlier in the day, Conductor Leonard Bernstein had led the players in passages from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 21, 1959 | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

U.S. tennis is in a poor state. With the single exception of Cincinnati's crew-cut Tony Trabert, who turned pro in 1955, the U.S. has not produced a tennis star of consistent world championship caliber since Pancho Gonzales began to play for pay in 1949. Furthermore, the raids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shadow for Substance | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Fallen on such hard times, U.S. tennis experts turned to fretting about the uneven bounces produced by the chewed-up grass courts (predicted Kramer: "Some day all of Forest Hills will be cement"), grumbled that the big serve and put-away volley were ruining the game. Few outside the closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shadow for Substance | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

The freckled 15-year-old blonde gripped the starting block with her toes, inhaled deeply, and hit the water at the gun with long, smooth strokes. When she flashed home last week in 4:55.9 for the 400 meters, Chris von Saltza of Saratoga, Calif, had broken her U.S. record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One-Girl Swim | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

Flat v. Round. By dugout standards, Jones is something of a wit, delights in snipping up the socks and shorts of teammates, who retaliate by cutting the brims off the hats he wears to cover his thinning, reddish-brown hair. Jones also always wears a toothpick in a corner of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Tortured Arm | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

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