Word: staggers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...living room in Ghent, Belgian Painter Octave Landuyt recalled a bit of his childhood. "I lived with my parents in a flat over a local slaughterhouse," he said. "I used to play among dying animals and heaps of entrails, while blood ran in the gutters. I saw bulls stagger under the deathblow, heave up again and again. It all had a primeval greatness...
...Crimson statistics stagger the imagination, boggle the mind, and sag the jaw in almost any department you can name. Razzle-dazzle artist Richard Baldwin Ruge has amassed an unbelievable rushing average of 15.4 yards per carry; quarterback Frederic L. Ballard can pass that buck like no one else in the business; fullback Chollie Bevard, in Russin's own words, will always "catch you off guard"; and linemen Robert "Speed" Gordon, Richard "King" Cotton, Raymond "The Sage" Sokolov, Andrew "The Rock" Weil and Lee "Flash" Auspitz are just, well, Some Of The Greats...
...possibilities "inherent in the expenditure of Pentagon-sized sums on these [peace] objectives stagger the imagination," Piel declared. He pictured the lesson which the prospect of disarmament teaches us--"that the public sector must continue directly and indirectly to certify a major and a growing percentage of our consumers with purchasing power...
...dislodge Bielig and his helpers by throwing tear-gas grenades onto the western side. Two minutes later, six West Berlin cops sprinted to Bielig's side and rained potent tear-gas bombs of their own on the armored water cannon until its choking crew was forced to stagger away...
...half crown, which is worth 35?; and next to the stone cartwheels used for coins on the Pacific island of Yap, they are almost certainly the world's heaviest. Since the lowest-value folding money is the 10-shilling note, which has a U.S. value of $1.40, Britons stagger under the weight of small change they must carry; the four pennies needed to make a phone call alone weigh...