Word: smackingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Building, the bidding session was tense and sweaty. For 2½ hours, interests from Hong Kong, England, Japan and from the U.S. (Pan American World Airways) maneuvered against each other in an effort to grasp the prize: 40,000 sq. ft. of the most valuable land in Hong Kong, smack in the middle of the city's bustling financial district. Suspense mounted until the noth bid was made. Then, while little groups huddled together to see if they should raise their bids, the gavel banged down decisively. The winners, with a top bid of $2,480,000: two Texas...
Monocled British Actor Martyn Green, 60, who lost half his left leg in a Manhattan garage-elevator mishap (TIME, Nov. 16), hobbled on uncertain crutches from his hospital room, bumped smack into the embraces of Broadway friends on hand for his coming-out party. Especially famed as a Gilbert and Sullivan singer and dancer, Green was soon informed that the Actors' Fund will provide him with an artificial leg so that he may again "bring joy and laughter to the stage." Having recalled recently that Actress Sarah Bernhardt carried on her career for some years with an artificial...