Word: roof
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atkinson quickly learned better, graduated from the "leaky roof" circuit to the big time, became one of the finest riders in racing, was national jockey champion in 1944 and 1946. Nicknamed "the slasher" for his enthusiastic use of the whip, the articulate Atkinson once explained why he had given the great Tom Fool such a tanning during his victorious ride in the Suburban Handicap in 1953: "The idea was not to beat him but to impress him with the urgency of the situation." In his 21-year career Ted booted home 3,795 winners, *won a healthy...
...recent jeep ride over the narrow new roads that lead part way across the roof of the world, TIME'S New Delhi Correspondent Donald Connery bounced his way to the dot on the map called Sikkim, a never-never land where women sit by the side of the road, breaking big rocks with little hammers, and watch the Mercedes go by. For his report, see FOREIGN NEWS, Land of the Uphill Devils...
Down through the years, as the zing of arrows gave way to the boom of the bomb, the people who live on the roof of the world never complained about all the noise down below. All they asked was to be left alone. Except for the occasional call by Lowell Thomas or somebody looking for the Abominable Snowman, they got their wish. Down below, Hannibal and Hitler, Socrates and Sinatra flashed by; high in the Himalayas, ignorant and innocent of it all, the people went right on hunting snow leopards, dodging devils and waiting for the reincarnation of their uncles...
...back country inhabited by 5,730 whites and 3,000,000 blacks), Dr. Banda held another press conference, which ended, in typical style, with his yelling at reporters: "I don't fawn on you. I think you are all a pack of liars." Then he rode on the roof of a car to the airport, as crowds scrambled to kiss his hand. At home another singing, dancing mob was waiting to greet him. Adopting a Napoleonic stance, Banda declared: "In Nyasaland, we mean to be masters, and if that is treason, make the most...
...summer of '57 when, in effect, they painstakingly eliminated in advance some of the hazards that might have tragically marred "Operation Sunshine" the following year. They cruised some 1,400 miles under the polar ice but were trapped more than once in sandwich-close quarters between the massive roof of ice (which on the 1957 trip extended as much as 100 ft. below the surface) and the shallow ocean floor. Once, Anderson nosed his sub to the seemingly ice-free surface but jarred against thin ice and blacked out both his periscopes. A 15-hour repair feat...