Word: remarked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been a fight fan, but I'll watch Cassius and enjoy every prediction and nervy remark he makes...
...sour note was the remark that the referee's card was absurd. Well the ref was closer to the fight than even those at ringside. Maybe he saw things the rest didn't. There were some sportswriters who thought the judges scored it too close. Yes, some also thought Jones won, but they were in the minority...
...book, representing the first published material from the 1961 Harvard Peabody expedition, is a remark-piece of writing. Texts on primitive man are generally of two varieties: the standard, jargon-crammed ethnographies, and the informal, mildly sensational accounts of "my three years trapped among the savage head-hunters." This book is neither; diary-like, it instead relates incidents occurring among the Kurelu tribe over a seven month period. Its purpose is to give a non-technical account of the way these people live, to give with quiet dignity a feeling of what it is like to be a stone...
Then one night in Pasadena, Calif., a German immigrant waiter named Johann Meindl was watching television and heard an art restorer remark that there were many masterpieces hanging incognito on people's walls whose value not even their owners dreamed of. Meindl wondered whether the two pocket-sized paintings (one is 6¾ by 4⅝ in., the other 6¼ by 3⅝ in.) he had been given in 1946 by an old teacher of his in Munich, Fräulein Josephine Werkman, just before her death, might be worth something. He took them to the restorer...
Died. Eppa Rixey Jr., 71, self-effacing 266-game winner during 21 years of major-league pitching with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds, whose last-month nomination to the Hall of Fame moved him to remark: "I guess they're scraping at the bottom of the barrel"; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati...