Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell...
...world record set in 1959 by Poland's Edmund Piatkowski. Fortnight ago in Frankfurt, he broke the record convincingly with a heave of 198 ft. 7 in. Not content with last week's record toss in Brussels.Silvester intends to stay in the throwing ring until he has flung the discus past that magic barrier...
...with hero worshipers. To Murray, professional ballplayers are "skilled but one-talent guys, who should be grateful that baseball is around to pay them $80,000 a year." When ancient Archie Moore prepared to defend his light-heavyweight boxing title, Murray took unsentimental note of Moore's brocaded ring bathrobe and droopy trunks, which "made him look like a guy who just got out of a hotel fire in time." When pint-sized Jerry Barber won the P.G.A. golf tournament, Murray suggested that Barber was "the only guy who ever won that trophy who could take a bath...
...whose head is not turned by the luminaries of sport and whose typewriter does not print in purple ink, Jim Murray, 42, onetime Los Angeles Examiner, TIME and SPORTS ILLUSTRATED staffer, is a prime example of the new look in sportswriting. Since the days when Paul Gallico, Westbrook Pegler, Ring Lardner and Grantland Rice turned sportswriting into an art (and drew the best pay in newspapering for it), their imitators have filled the nation's sports pages with some of the worst-and occasionally some of the best-overwriting in journalism. This encouraged the notion, said Stanley Walker...
NONFICTION 1. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. The Making of the President 1960,White (3) 3. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (2) 4. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (7) 5. The New English Bible (5) 6. Ring of Bright Water,Maxwell (4) 7. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (6) 8. The Spanish Civil War, Thomas (10) 9. Firsthand Report, Adams (8) 10. My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House, Parks...