Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leibowitz: "I will give you a thousand years if necessary. I will bury you in jail...
...Mark Hellinger Theater looked as big and lonely as a desert at midday. Its barren boards reflected a fierce, mote-filled glare from banked and blazing floodlights, and out beyond it, in the hushed cavern of the theater, the audience waited like a beast in its den-multi-headed, thousand-eyed, impatient and menacingly silent. It was a terrible place for a ballplayer to find himself on the eve of the World Series...
...Captain Before a hushed audience of a thousand or more attentive golfers, Francis Ouimet stepped soberly up to the first tee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, Scotland. It was early for a round: not yet 8 o'clock. But Ouimet was not going to play even once around: all he intended to do was to hit this one ceremonial drive. Scotland's Willie Auchter-lonie, who won the British Open in 1893, teed up the ball. The town clock tolled eight as Ouimet took his stance. Strung out in front...
...living human man; my heart and soul wanted to make a warm living human home and grow in it babies, babies made by my husband and me ... Can a putrefied Charlemagne or a mummified Pharaoh protect and love and guide a living child? 'My daddy's three thousand years old. Yeth, we go to thee him in the museum thometimes. We thee hith toe poking out of the bandage, just like my big toe' . . . I am already a craven prehistoric cave woman of 1951. Thank God. At least we're all five of us alive...
Less than a thousand undergraduates turned out for the first football rally of the season last night and, after one half hour of forced enthusiasm, the sparse crowd returned to its environs...