Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sand-covered ceiling over the old entrance of their excavation - to make it appear that they had filled it in. Entering the excavation through a secret door they built through the back of a cupboard, they dug farther, shoring up their excavations with brick columns and meticulously uncovering stone after stone-some of them weighing 3 tons-from the monument...
Gottfried Haberler, Galen L. Stone Professor of International Trade, joined Caves in criticizing De Gaulle. "De Gaulle's economics are rotten," Haberler said. "The United States has not exported inflation. The purchasing power of the dollar has been better preserved than almost any other currency...
That was the only race Native Dancer ever lost. In a three-year career marred by bad luck (he was knocked off stride by a swerving horse in the Derby) and a succession of physical ailments (bucked shins, stone bruises, a bad ankle, a sore hoof), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's "Grey Ghost" won 21 out of 22 races and $785,240-surpassing the record of the legendary Man o War. He was such a favorite with the bettors that only in his very first race were Native Dancer's odds higher than 9 to 10. Retired...
...Roman cops were not so sure. When the visitors, lacking a table to sign papers on, began moving a heavy stone slab around to make do, a dozen carabinieri came on the run to halt what looked like desecration of a national monument. When the sideshow ended at last, "the Greatest Show on Earth" passed to its new owners...
Jardine also mentioned ends Kontos (31 catches for 478 yards on the year) and John Olsen (13 for 165). Defensively, he singled out backs Joe Petrucelli, Tom Winner, Dave Jollin, and John Rallis; linebacker Tom Whidden; and linemen Sandy Stoddard and John Stone...