Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 48 laps, Vukovich made a pit stop, took on fuel and four new wheels, all in 49 seconds. He lost the lead momentarily, but five laps later he had it back. The heat and the grind began to take their toll. Cars broke down, and seven swerved into spectacular accidents in which no one was seriously hurt. Worn-out drivers turned their cars over to relief men. After 70 laps Carl Scarborough, 38, dropped out. Later that day, he died of heat exhaustion...
...spite of their lowly backgrounds, other Old Blues had careers even more spectacular. Charles Lamb went to C.H.; so did Coleridge and Leigh Hunt. Three Old Blues rose to be Lord Mayors of London; another, Sir Henry Cole, helped to found the Victoria and Albert Museum and Albert Hall; still another, Lord Seaton, led the charge which routed the Old Guard at Waterloo. The school that these men attended changed little over the years. In matters of custom and costume, it was much the same in the more recent days of Critic Middleton Murry and Actor Michael Wilding...
...postwar Europe, West Germany has made a spectacular economic comeback. Last week the government issued a report showing just how spectacular the change has been...
...Gasperi has crossed a lot of political chasms since then. Somehow, with undramatic surefootedness. he has always got past danger-often with results that have been far more spectacular than the events themselves made them seem...
...impulsive; De Gasperi is withdrawn, often icily aloof. The language of Dante is a melting, musical tongue, and Italians traditionally make colorful orators, but De Gasperi is a rambling, unmusical speaker who can stretch a few scribbled notes into a 90-minute discourse. Italians are accustomed to the spectacular in politics -Garibaldi and his red-shirted 1,000; the Blackshirts marching on Rome; Palmiro Togliatti's Reds tearing up piazzas. Alcide de Gasperi disdains the theatrical and the violent, speaks softly, listens forbearingly, sits out crises patiently, and acts unhurriedly with an extraordinary instinct for timing...