Word: spectacularized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What Twiggy is doing for fashions, a new breed of audacious British thieves is doing for crime. British crime has become both more frequent and more spectacular ever since the Great Train Robbery of 1963 whetted rascals' appetites for neatly executed commando-type operations-and titillated the imagination of millions with tales of rags to riches. British robbers these days are getting away with an incredible $840,000 in loot each week...
...Engineer seventh, Harvard centerfielder Carter Lord -- robbed of an extra base hit in the first inning by one of Weissman's seven spectacular grabs -- saved Lincoln's shutout with a strong throw, holding a runner at third base...
Still looking up, Surveyor later scored another space-age first, shooting 20 spectacular photographs of a solar eclipse that was unlike any ever before seen by man. Instead of being blotted out by the moon-as it is during solar eclipses seen on earth-the sun was temporarily hidden behind the earth. During the two hours that Surveyor was in the shadow cast by the eclipse, lunar midday temperatures plummeted from...
...anniversary of Canada's national birth, and thus is powered by the energies and imagination of a proud and thriving people who have long yearned to prove that their country is considerably more than the U.S.'s backwoods halfbrother. "Anyone who says we aren't a spectacular people should see this," said Pearson. "We are witness today to the fulfillment of one of the most daring acts of faith in Canadian enterprise and ability ever undertaken...
...present a more spectacular program than the single Houses could handle financially, Eliot, Quincy, and Winthrop decided to join forces. On Friday, May 12 from 8:30 to midnight the three will host dancing in the Freshman Union to the "vibrating soul of the Chambers Brothers and the groovin' sound of the Outsiders." The inspired blues of the Brothers alternating with the "Time Won't Let Me" sound of the Outsiders promises to set the somber Union ringing...