Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into a meat grinder, let the bait drift down-current; soon he had five sharks gliding gracefully around him. A 7-ft. dusky shark broke slowly away from his companions and hovered near the skindiver. Suddenly, maddened by the scent of ground ray, the shark flicked his powerful tail and bore down on Slaughter, jaws agape. The shark killer grasped his powerhead's shaft and drove the weapon against the onrushing shark's head, shattering its brain...
Noting that the few were giving way to the many, Incumbent Impresario Frank Gravatt gambled $80,000, brought in John Philip Sousa-and the monkey wrapped its tail around the flagpole...
...young Wade Blasingame effortlessly beat Hanford High 5-2, struck out 16 batters. By graduation he had a won-lost record of 26-0, five no-hitters, an average of 15 strike-outs a game, a niggardly 0.45 earned-run average, and eight major league clubs on his tail. While a platoon of scouts watched, wheedled and courted Wade. Dale Blasingame did all the talking for his boy. The talk was blunt, sometimes brutal. "Half a dozen teams were in there with high offers," says he. "Some others frankly confessed they were on budgets, and I just as frankly told...
...Fringe. Director Harewood says: "They must be free to put on a play by Picasso in which someone fries fish onstage while a naked woman recites comments on the world situation"-which is what one Fringe group did last year, with Father Pablo's Desire Caught by the Tail...
...Valiant has not made up the difference, rising only from 2%_ to 2.1% despite a $100 price cut. Valiant's new and costlier twin, the compact Dodge Lancer, got only a discouraging 1.2% of the market, and the middle-priced Dodge Dart, newly styled with a bomb-shaped tail end, dropped from 5.3% to 3%. The middle-rung Chrysler is a bright spot: it reduced minimum prices, lifted its market from 1.2% to 1.6%. But only one out of every 500 cars sold in the U.S. today is the luxury Imperial...