Word: rocked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...publication of the Negro crime article [April 21] is a cinch to woo back the Faubus-following racists TIME lost during the Little Rock episode, who, no doubt, will take the article's title and figures literally...
...championship, Stephen Awerman, an eleven-year-old from Jamaica, L.I., decided that he could hold his own with the big boys. He spun his yo-yo through the required figures-spinner, walking-the-dog, breakaway, over-the-falls, around-the-world, three-leaf-clover, creeper, rock-the-baby-then unreeled 312 loop-the-loops to latch onto the title. ¶Haled into a Miami traffic court, Leroy ("Satchel") Paige, patriarch of pitchers, whose age is a matter of opinion (his opinion, 49; his mother's, 54), drew a 20-day jail sentence and a chance to work...
...synchronous detonation of the Liuchow runway is foiled, Major Baldwin goads his bone-weary men through an unending night as they blow each bomb separately. When the men stand about in listless show-me skepticism, it is the major who mans the heavy air hammer to prepare a roadbed rock slide...
Chase a Crooked Shadow (Warner), a shadowy whodunit with a crooked who-is-it finish, does its chasing along the austere magnificence of Spain's Mediterranean, rock-tempered coastline. Overlooking the soft seas, in a typical Spanish villa complete with a Beverly Hills bar inside an East Hampton beach house, a powder-pale beauty (Anne Baxter) writhes in poor-little-rich-girl loneliness. Her father committed suicide, his mining trust fell to dust, and her speed-happy brother apparently died in a car crash. But her real worries are all boxed up and neatly hidden away in the beach...
Despite damage done to their best shell by a rock thrown from the shore, the Freshmen borrowed another boat and gained an easy victory over their three opponents. Never pressed after the first half mile, they rowed at a low stroke, between 29 1/2 and 30 1/2. Syracuse, behind by about two and a half lengths, began to make a bid to overtake the Crimson with three-quarters of a mile to go, but fell further back when one of the oarsmen caught a crab...