Word: six
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pledges were marched to a buffet table. On a tray lay thick slices of oil-soaked raw liver, each about the size of a club sandwich. Gagging and coughing, the first six pledges managed to get the liver down without chewing it; that was part of the ritual...
...moments after Toronto Art Gallery employees reported for work one morning last week, the building was swarming with cops, detectives, reporters, gallery directors and art experts. The reason: six paintings were missing, and two more had been slightly damaged. The thieves had stolen Frans Hals's portraits of Isaak Abrahamsz Massa (conservatively valued by gallery officials at $120,000) and Vincent Laurensz van der Vinne ($80,000), Rembrandt's portraits of a Lady with a Lap Dog ($150,000) and a Lady with a Handkerchief ($250,000), Pierre Renoir's Portrait of Claude ($20,000), Peter Paul...
...determined art lover. "That stuff will be hot for the next 100 years," said Toronto Inspector John Gillespie, as police dispatched photographs of the stolen masterpieces throughout the world. "I don't know how they will get rid of it." Best guess: the thieves have merely kidnaped the six pictures, plan to hold them until the insurance company offers a big enough ransom for their return...
...finals Coe started fast, drilling birdies on the first three holes, led two up after the morning round of 18 holes. But in the afternoon Coe began to wilt. He sent seven of nine tee shots into the rough, set six geese to frantic squawking by nearly dropping a ball into their pond...
...shallow, olive-green Galveston Bay, sunburned Harry C. Melges Jr., 29, a boatbuilder from Lake Geneva, Wis., won none of the eight races in the 20½-ft. Corinthian class sloops, but finished no worse than fourth in six to edge Warner Willcox of New Rochelle, N.Y., 45½-45¼, take the eighth Mallory Cup, symbol of the North American sailing championship. Said Sailor Melges: "I played it straight. No gambling. No chances...