Word: prize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater like a Brando or a Burton. The producer nourishes the hone of a croupier to rake in the chips. The backer, that garishly garbed seraph who roots for his cash on opening night with cacophonous enthusiasm, hopes for some sort of glittering new social credential and the consolation prize of a virtually guaranteed tax loss. The critic approaches the new season like an Israelite at the edge of the Red Sea-perhaps the surging waters of mediocrity will part...
Harvard's Nobel prize-winning biologist, George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, has joined the late Sen. Everett M Dirksen and the Archies in the battle for the top of the record charts...
...former Rhodes Scholar and Harvard Prize Fellow. Wood is now a Ph. D. candidate in American history at the GSAS. His wife, Ann D. Wood, is a resident tutor at Eliot in English and in History and Literature...
...personally kind and shamelessly sentimental. In his garden at Sterling, Va., he tended prize roses, poinsettias and camellias. Each year, in his most floriated prose, he beseeched the Senate to designate the marigold as the nation's official flower: "It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as delicate as the carnation, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet and as stately as the snapdragon." He was one of the last national politicians who dared allow his eyes to mist when he spoke of the "fa-lag" and "coun-tray," and, in a way, the emotion...
...Forest Hills, N.Y. Playing his distinctively cool, calculating game, he overwhelmed another Australian, Tony Roche, 7-9, 6-1, 6-2, 6-2, to win the U.S. Open championship and thereby stash an unprecedented second grand slam into his tucker bag. His victory earned him $16,000 in prize money and brought his winnings for the year to $106,030. He became the only tennis pro ever to win more than $100,000 in a single season...