Word: spined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spine Tingler. "There are some things Edie won't do, but nothing she can't do," said Groucho Marx, introducing her present show at a hotel on the Las Vegas strip. This statement could only be half right, since Edie does have her limitations. She is no Judy Garland. But nonetheless she is an above-average singer who is also an amusing comedienne and a pretty, been-around blonde with a spooky resemblance to Marilyn Monroe. The resemblance is so spooky, in fact, that she has had to drop Marilyn from her repertory of impressions (Jeanette MacDonald, Shirley...
Sadanoyama lunged forward-and the great, grunting men locked in a spine-wrenching embrace. Faces scarlet from exertion, they stumbled toward the edge of the ring. Sadanoyama relentlessly bent Taiho backward. Just when he seemed beaten. Taiho twisted free, heaved Sada noyama bodily out of the ring, and collapsed, exhausted, on top of his conquered...
...Petrofina's expansion has been characteristically unconventional. Since 1956 it has planted 2,224 Fina service stations down the U.S. spine from Minnesota to Texas and is opening them at the rate of about 30 a year. Invading a hard-marketing industry in which gas prices are the same and Fina is no different from most other U.S. brands, the U.S. affiliate makes its soft sell way by disdaining wham...
...spot on the long, narrow island is more than 40 miles from the sea; it is an easy if unwilling subject for high-flying U25 slanting their cameras on target from offshore. A single run along its spine rolls out the island on film like a topographical map Supersonic jets scooting in at low titude can roar over the horizon, photograph anything of interest, and be out to sea again in a total of five minutes...
Harvard-Yale clashes in the past several years have lacked this spine-tingling quality. Yale humiliated the varsity in 1956 by a 42-14 margin, and then clobbered the injury-ridden Crimson 54-0 the next year...