Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Somewhere in the auditorium there was a wolf howl. Then down the aisles, feet thumping the wooden floor, bounded five men. They dashed past rows of seated spectators, crossed the ten feet between front row and stage and jumped the four-foot parapet. One swung on Cole and sent him reeling onto the piano bench, which split under...
...first boat will rely largely on Sam Williams, who got his rowing experience at Groton. Williams will pull the number seven oar. The rest of the crew's membership had been very uncertain until quite recently, but now it appears that Leavitt has found, by a painful trial-and-error process, the right combination to row the first boat...
...differentiated from conformity. That is the difference between our system and the Communist system ... We tolerate and welcome differences of opinion . . . Goodness knows, we don't want any satellites." When free world countries get into disputes in which the U.S. is not directly involved, e.g., the Dutch-Indonesian row about New Guinea, "we expect to continue to take a position of neutrality...
...fourth year in a row Richard Alonzo ("Pancho") Gonzales, 27, demonstrated that he is the best tennis player in the world. In the finals of the world professional championships at Cleveland he whipped Ecuador's Pancho Segura (in table tennis scoring...
...Seraglio. The Victorian era, according to Pearl, was "an age when prostitution was widespread and flagrant; when many London streets were like Oriental bazaars of flesh; when the luxurious West End nighthouses dispensed love and liquor till dawn; when fashionable whores . . . rode with duchesses in Rotten Row, and eminent Victorians negotiated for the tenancy of their beds; when a pretty new suburb arose at St. John's Wood as a seraglio for mistresses and harlots." In the rising tide of Victorian morality, one female Londoner in every 16 became a whore; there were 6,000 brothels and about...