Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clubs with her stunning beauty, gold lame-clad figure and torch songs (Love Isn't Born, It's Made), later turned to films, giving starring performances in Carmen Jones and Porgy and Bess, but then saw the torch dim, was forced into bankruptcy in 1963; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
...last chips were the winning ones. As a final stroke, Johnson sent his top economic advisers to the bargaining table with the Administration's own specific "suggestions" for a three-year contract. That was all the negotiators needed. Both sides quickly accepted the terms, which call for an increase of 3.2% for the steelworkers, the maximum wage boost that the Administration considers "noninflationary...
...occasional minor tournament, almost always finished in the money (20 out of 22 times so far this year), modeled sports clothes for Jantzen on the side. He was reliable, comfortable and frustrated. "I'm never going to win another one," he told his wife after blowing a five-stroke lead in last month's $70,000 Insurance City Open. "There's too much...
...17th hole at Ligonier's Laurel Valley Golf Club last week, Dave was clinging shakily to a two-stroke lead when Nicklaus sank an 18-ft. chip shot from off the green. "That made me hot," Marr said later. "I decided I wasn't going to let him win. To hell with him." Dave promptly canned his putt. On the 18th he dropped his approach 3 ft. from the pin and got the shakes all over again. "I told myself, 'C'mon, make it, finish like a champion is supposed to finish. Don't putt...
...Steve Krause, 15, surprised everybody including himself ("I never dreamed that I would swim that fast") when he splashed to a new world record of 16 min. 58.6 sec. in the 1,500-meter freestyle. California's Claudia Kolb, 15, won the women's 100-meter breast stroke, the 200-meter breast stroke and the 200-meter individual medley, topped it off by helping her Santa Clara Swim Club team to victory in the 400-meter medley relay. Then there was a trio of precocious14-year-olds−Indiana's Judy Humbarger, Pennsylvania's Mary-Ellen...