Word: shoehorned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...office. For a time in Spain's new and vigorous consumer society, the box office was busier than ever. With 20 million foreign tourists a year and television beaming corridas to as many as 15 million more people (instead of the mere 23,663 that can shoehorn into the Plaza Monumental), the bullfights have become a $25 million-a-year jackpot. In order to get a share of the pot, everyone concentrated on providing more fights. But a consumer society, like a matador's sword, is double-edged. More fights meant poorer fights. Aficionados hooted...
...ADDITION, the committee will have to decide how Houses should be staffed to keep up with the mountains of paper work they now face. John Finley has called himself a shoehorn, and while no other Master enters the business of writing recommendations with his verve, it is agreed that moving students smoothly into whatever they will do the year after they graduate is a part of the Houses...
...Shoehorn for His Hat. Clay detailed his diet for newsmen ("Muslim bean soup, Eee-gyptian brown rice, Arabian string beans"), refused to pose for photographs standing alongside the shorter (by 2½ in.) and lighter (by 14 Ibs.) Patterson. "If I did," he said, "nobody would come to see the fight...
Those who went saw a slaughter, the most lopsided contest since lions lunched at the Colosseum. "I am going to punish him," Clay had said contemptuously. "I am going to beat him so badly that he'll need a shoehorn to get his hat on again." Cassius obviously is a man of his word. In the first round he was so busy taunting his opponent ("White American!") that he neglected to throw a punch and Patterson won the round. It was the only round...
...place to shoehorn into at the moment is Shepheard's, a fantasia of golden Pharaohs, gilded sphinxes, palm trees and desert tents, which is supposed to suggest the famed old outpost of empire in Cairo that burned down in 1952. Shepheard's, which opened last December in the Drake Hotel, is not a club-though that is not to say it is easy to get a table. It is also not a pure discotheque; a combo of drums, bass and xylophone plays along with the records...