Word: sink
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston's famed Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White, 73, is almost as eager as was Captain Ahab to sink a harpoon into the mightiest leviathan of the deep, but for a different reason: he wants to record its electrocardiogram. Dr. White has logged the ECG of a small (only 1¼ ton) Beluga whale in Alaska (TIME, Aug. 25, 1952), but has been thwarted in efforts to get his electrodes into the bigger grey whale off California. Last week he was within a heartbeat of an equally desirable prize, and missed by a fluke...
Opening the season against Wake Forest, Lucas shook off his first-half jitters ("Man, I was scared") to sink 16 points, monopolize the backboards with 28 rebounds. Final score: Ohio State 77, Wake Forest 69. Still, the team and Lucas looked so rocky that Coach Taylor could not sleep the following night, finally dozed off on the living-room floor, where he had thrown himself down to brood...
...sweet but sexy, and eager to learn. When the soft blue lights came up on her last week, she tilted back the high-cheekboned, full-lipped face on the swan neck and gave out with a brassily exuberant Everything's Coming Up Roses. From that the voice could sink to a smoky purr in a slow Too Much in Love or take on a rasping burr in an upbeat All or Nothing at All. In a white fringed shawl Songstress Carroll sat with a single spot shining on her tawny face while she sang a moving set of folk...
...features before-and-after pictures of his own pate in his advertising, is now trying to set up Taylor Topper franchises across the U.S. Last week he allowed: "I'm not doing a land-office business-but it takes time for this sort of thing to sink...
...bare 2 yds. away from the quarter back, returning his stare in challenge, waits the key man of the proud New York Giant defense: Middle Linebacker Sam Huff (6 ft. 1 in., 230 lbs.), a confident, smiling fighter fired with a devout desire to sink a thick shoulder into every ball carrier in the National Football League...