Word: spectaculars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business for a profit; you should run a city to benefit the people," the city manager contends. One of his more spectacular savings involved purchase of an $18,000 truck for $1,000 through alert spotting of a war surplus deal. Actually the vehicle cost only a paltry $500 but it required an additional $500 to ship the thing from San Juan, Porto Rico...
...less spectacular than Eccles or Marples is a quiet, relatively unknown, 47-year-old lawyer named John Selwyn Lloyd...
...daddy of all the troubles, long underestimated Mr. Mossadeq of Iran, sat in Room 1619 of New York Hospital's George F. Baker Pavilion, while U.N. officials, Asiatic friends and U.S. diplomats tiptoed to his bedside. Though he had won a spectacular reputation for fainting at appropriate moments, he was pronounced in good health by U.S. doctors. After that, he quietly moved himself to the Ritz Tower. He was in New York to tell the U.N. Security Council (and a nationwide TV audience) that it had no business interfering with Iran's decision to kick out the Anglo...
...Crimson never could have done it, either, but for the remarkable play of Captain Dick Craven in the goal. Craven made21 saves, one of which came in the second overtime period and was "the most spectacular save" Munro had ever seen...
Possibly the professional football experts present were a little disappointed. Neither team would make a spectacular showing in the Big Ten, nor in the National Football League for that matter. But they still played a game that lacked none of the thrills, none of the high interest that are peculiar to the country's fall sport. Both teams played hard, both played rough and both showed a tremendous amount of spirit. The crowd cheered itself hoarse and went back to the Square feeling that it had got more than it's money's worth in action and excitement...