Word: spectacular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...staged a $500,000 czarist-style marriage feast that went on for two weeks, and was kept afloat by gallons of pink Crimean champagne, sweet Armenian brandy and vodka. But, after Stalin died in 1953, Svetlana dropped from sight. Last week she suddenly reappeared. In one of the more spectacular defections of the cold war, she surprised the world by seeking asylum in the West...
...thing, said Case, there is Tommy Davis, acquired from the Los Angeles Dodgers: "I saw Davis play and he didn't limp like I do." That's encouraging. On another Dodger Davis, Willie, who became a World Series anti-hero last fall with his three spectacular errors against the Orioles, Casey observed: "He drops fly balls sometimes, and at a bad time of the year...
...first new English-language Catholic encyclopedia in over half a century is a bookmaker's spectacular. Published this week by McGraw-Hill* and edited by scholars at the Catholic University of America, the New Catholic Encyclopedia was seven years in preparation, took $4,000,000 to produce. It will cost $550 to acquire the set - and may well be worth it. The 15 volumes contain 15,350 pages, 7,500 illustrations, 15 million words, 17,000 articles ranging from "A Cappella" to "Zwinglianism...
Martin Chalfie won a place in finals of the 200-yard butterfly with a spectacular time of 2:02, three seconds faster than his previous fastest time...
Harvard's Cassius Clay, Eliot's Steve Crosby, won his third consecutive 185-lb title in the day's most spectacular bout, a first-round knockout of Bill Crowe, also of Eliot...