Word: taller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Benvenuti had size going for him: at 5 ft. 11 in. and 159 lbs., he was 3½ in. taller and 5½ lbs. heavier than Griffith. He had solid credentials: an Olympic welterweight championship in 1960, only one loss in 192 amateur and professional bouts. And he also had the crowd. Madison Square Garden was awash with Italian flags and posters pleading DAGLIELA ALLA PANZZA! (Freely: Paste him in the belly!) But Griffith, 29, was the tough ex-street fighter from the Virgin Islands who had killed Benny Paret in the ring, won the welterweight championship three times before...
Many experts believe that the new rule actually will hamper shorter men-who use the dunk shot as a means of combating taller defenders such as Alcindor. In fact one of the most prolific dunkers in college basketball last season was Niagara Freshman Calvin Murphy, who stands only...
...Goddess. All that's exciting in the new cast of cinema characters is prepotently present in Lynn and Vanessa Redgrave. They look, to begin with, like no other actresses currently facing clapper cues?and certainly not like each other. Both are tall, but Vanessa is the taller by a smidgen; at 5 ft. 10½ in., she is the skyscrapingest screen queen in filmsville. (Garbo, though her pressagent insisted that she was only 5 ft. 7, wore flat heels in Grand Hotel but still swayed high above John Barrymore, whose pressagent insisted that he stood 5 ft. 10.) For her height...
...hyperactive pituitary, when every school is trying to find itself a Lew Alcindor and there are 50 players who are 6 ft. 11 in. or taller on the rosters of college basketball, large news is coming in some small packages. While gangling giants stuff their shots with contemptuous ease, a surprising crop of shorter men are reasserting their claim to a piece of the game. Dribbling, passing and shooting rings around their taller teammates, they are bringing back to basketball some agile, old-fashioned skills. Three of the best: >U.C.L.A.'s Mike Warren, 5 ft. 11 ½ in., seems...
...When a taller opponent is bending over with arms draped loosely in front of him,. Naylor pounces. He steps in, hooks one arm (see pictures), reaches across the man's front to hook the other arm, then falls back. Naylor's leg arches his opponent onto his back, and his arms remain hooked for a deadly pinning combination...