Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he considered his right-hand punch, Ingemar Johansson spoke in terms of muted and mystical awe that such a thing could be. "The arm works by itself," said he. "It is faster than the eye. When I hit any man, he cannot stand...
...Johansson's tremendous punch against Patterson had already become as much a part of boxing lore as "the long count" that saved the championship for Gene Tunney in his 1927 fight with Jack Dempsey. And by any standard, Johansson's right hand is the biggest thing to hit boxing in years...
...their ship was carried westward on the well-known equatorial surface current. The next year the Service's Townsend Cromwell established the reason: a hitherto unsuspected current, deep below the surface current and moving in the opposite direction. Later investigation revealed that the Cromwell Current is a tremendous thing. It is 250 miles wide, at least 3,500 miles long. Three hundred feet below the surface, its high-speed core flows eastward at up to 3 knots, carrying 1,000 times as much water as the Mississippi...
...this by using a productivity figure of 3.2%. The reason for the difference is that management uses steel shipments per man-hour to arrive at its figure and the union uses output per man-hour, while each selects productivity figures over different periods. This is just the sort of thing that caused Government agencies to shy away from choosing a set of statistics...
...main nerve and native intelligence has carried off careers as military surgeon, psychology professor, cancer researcher, dean of a school of philosophy, language teacher, law student, assistant prison warden, Trappist monk and the devil knows what else (TIME, Dec. 3, 1951; Feb. 25, 1957). Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this Cagliostro is his conscience; more often than not, he commits crimes of kindness and sins of social betterment...