Word: portion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friday, however, the winches failed to stop the lower portion of the act. It carried the top part into the lighting grid 52 feet above the stage...
...modifications now before the Committee on Houses should satisfy partisans on all sides of the issue. The most important change would once more permit a Master to select a portion of those freshmen who indicate his House as their first choice. The applicants would regain the opportunity to express one-two-three preferences. And the Masters, several of whom feel muzzled by the present machinery, would receive more representation on the House assignment Committee...
...starting line in Hopkinton, Mass., waited until the main bunch of runners had disappeared before launching herself onto the course. To disguise her sex, she wore a hooded blue sweatshirt, but when that got too warm, she peeled down to a black swimsuit and Bermuda shorts. For a good portion of the race, she jogged alongside Alton Chamberlain of New York, who said afterward: "She didn't look half as bad as some...
...HOSTAGE (Columbia). Whether through providential design or evolutionary quirk, an Irishman's tongue is the nimblest portion of his anatomy. The late Brendan Behan's tongue was rough, racy, tender and tart. His play, if it can be called that, is a cross between a magnificent barroom brawl and every vaudeville turn in the book of yesterday. Julie Harris and an intoxicatingly zestful company offer this bawdy, irreverent toast to the world...
...SADDEST SUMMER OF SAMUEL S, by J. P. Donleavy. A writer who can see the humor in human despair, Novelist Donleavy here disburses another handsome, lean portion of his inexhaustible wit, this time about a man who embarks on a successful search for hopelessness...