Word: spar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...single combat, the Greeks respond at first with resounding silence. Then Menelaus, whose wife Helen set off the strife by running away with Paris, grudgingly accepts the challenge-but quickly lets himself be talked out of it. When at last Ajax is chosen by lot, he and Hector spar for a minute and then agree it is really too dark to fight...
...workers to pay homage to "the Henry Ford of the light aircraft industry." His name: Dwane L. (for Leon) Wallace, 47, president of Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co. A skillful management pilot with a frame (6 ft. 2½ in., 160 Ibs.) as spare as a wing spar and a face as weatherbeaten as a crop-duster's, Dwane Wallace was celebrating his 25th year with Cessna. There was a great deal to celebrate...
...Haunted Palace, by Frances Win-war. A fine biography of Edgar Allan Poe, evoking a life of drink, drugs, and near madness redeemed solely by the unsinkable spar of his sometime genius...
...right beneath the waves, and one that is much more accessible in my lifetime." Unlike Cardinal, who sketches on dry land, Swanson has worked out a technique for drawing and coloring underwater. He uses a waterproof Japanese oil-base pastel stick on a specially coated paper often stiffened with spar varnish to keep it from wrinkling...
...finest jobs in clarity in exposing a cross section of Vice President Nixon's courageous, non-political talk before the A.N.P.A. Every day, Nixon grows in stature as a great American statesman with the courage of his convictions while so many of his opponents spar in the political ring for punches designed to slam through the front pages. He must be doing all right for himself, because the shadows in the dark, slimy political alleys continue to try to smear him with the wornout, age-old charges never proved, but kept alive by the followers of Hiss, Truman, Rayburn...