Word: stunner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennsylvania played its worst game of the season against Harvard last Saturday, missing every break and making many mistakes. It won't happen again. In a stunner, Mr. Z and his surprising crew, which played Harvard even in the second half, will top Dowling's Yalies...
...official party newspaper, Granma, announced the news: 43 "traitors to the revolution" had been arrested and would face trial for "intrigues" and "conspiratorial actions." That alone was not too surprising under Castro's oppressive regime, but Granma followed it up a day later with a real stunner: the plotters were in league with the Russians. Thus, as he might savor a slow-burning, pungent Havana cigar, Castro revealed to the world the scope of Cuba's steadily worsening relations with Moscow...
...Weapon. Madame Ky, freshly round-eyed from plastic surgery in Tokyo (TIME, Dec. 23), got nearly as much attention as her husband. Aussie papers breathlessly reported each change of dazzling, multicolored ao dai that she wore, analyzed her hairdos and even printed enlargements of her shoes. The consensus: a stunner. Said Prime Minister Harold Holt: "Marshal Ky's strikingly beautiful wife is a secret weapon who has added to the tour's success...
Brown is coming off two losses and it would be a stunner if the strong Bruins lost a third game in a row. They are led by seniors Bruce Darling, an Ontarian who has led the Ivy League in scoring the last two years, and Bob Gaudreau, one of the best defensemen in the East...
Glazed Eyes. Cheray's Malcolm Starr gown-a flowing chiffon in lime green with one shoulder bared-was a stunner. So was the dress worn by young Washington Socialite Mrs. Eric Wentworth: flowing green chiffon, one shoulder bare. Then Mrs. John Hayes, wife of a Washington Post Co. vice president, also showed up awearing of the green (chiffon, one shoulder). As guest after guest floated in with the same model, smiles stiffened, eyes glazed. Fascinated, society editors began to keep score. They counted 15 to 20 women wearing identical or indistinguishable gowns (at $160 for the Starr silk-chiffon...