Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finishing under the shadow of the spectacular new Prudential Center, whose time broke the old course record by two minutes, led a team of Young Japanese to five of the first six places. Only Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium, the defending champion, managed to sandwich himself amongst the Asian horde. He finished fourth, losing his chance to win his third straight Marathon...
Twenty doctors wearing sandwich-board signs over their well-dressed frames picketed last week outside Manhattan's Coliseum. The occasion was the Ninth Annual International Auto Show, and the doctors were doing their bit to urge more safety features in autos. The demonstration was just one more in a growing chorus of demands that Detroit do something both to curb the rising highway accident toll and to cut down its annual contribution of 92 million tons of carbon monoxide to air pollution...
...host replies, "I didn't even know you weren't here." When he carves a girl's initials on a small tree, the tree collapses. When a little girl he admires approaches him in the playground, he gets so nervous he ties his peanut-butter sandwich in knots. When he wins a bowling trophy-a rare triumph-his name turns out to be spelled wrong. "How can we lose when we're so sincere?" he cries after losing his umpteenth baseball game. "Charlie," says Milt Caniff, creator of the adventure strip Steve Canyon, "is everybody...
...Decatur St., where the beatings had begun, Lackey's policemen sat down on the grass by the curb and began to eat sandwich lunches. Other officers cleaned up. Picket signs, shoes, a braid torn from a girl's head, and other articles were carried away. Kuromiya's blood was washed into the gutter...
...French blue-collar workers voluntarily (so to speak) turn over their weekly pay envelopes to maman, who passes back a few francs for Gauloises and wine. Economically, French housewives are growing increasingly independent. With the growth in popularity of household time-savers like the automatic washer and le sandwich, some 30% of all married women find the time and energy to hold jobs outside the home, roughly the same proportion...