Word: stringed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...String of Salutes. The test of last fortnight makes all its predecessors, including the 1952 shot, look like a string of one-inch salutes. The force of the explosion probably exceeded ten megatons (500 Hiroshimas). It sent a radioactive cloud billowing to a height that may have exceeded 20 miles. In the thin air of the stratosphere, it seems likely, the cloud slumped over like water tossed from a bucket...
Ingredient for Palship. Cohn's important Manhattan legal friends had been telling him for a long time that he should meet young David Schine, the son of J. Myer Schine, multimillionaire owner of a string of hotels and theaters. Cohn's old boss, Irving Saypol, got Dave and Roy together at a luncheon in a restaurant in downtown Manhattan in 1952. Dave Schine turned out to be a pleasant, articulate young man with the build and features of a junior-grade Greek god. The two 25-year-olds were soon cutting a wide swath through Manhattan...
...Porfirio's junior standing (he has racked up four marriages to Barbara's five), the round was clearly his. Although he renounced all claims to share Babs's money, he collected a handsome dowry while the getting was good. Reported items: a $200,000 airplane, a string of blue-blooded polo ponies, $800,000 worth of other knickknacks...
...Blue now has a string of 113 straight victories and eight EISL championships. The varsity ends its season with a record of eight...
...once more cracked a Donovan 1952 freshman intercollegiate mark with a time of 49.8. The Bullpups also set a Yale freshman record of 2:58.4 in the 300-yard medley relay. One hundred and seventeen straight victories leaves the incoming Yale freshmen with quite a legacy. The Yardlings' string of eight couldn't measure up to stiff, long-distance intercollegiate competition...