Word: threads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Slender Thread. At the Crisis Clinic, a suicide-prevention center in Seattle, a student volunteer (Sidney Poitier) embarks upon a life-or-death telephone conversation with an unhappy young matron (Anne Bancroft) who has locked herself in a motel room and taken an overdose of barbiturates. "What happened?" he asks. "Nothing, really," she answers helplessly. "I just didn't have anything...
...girl he knows is a man-eating blonde TV commentator (Honor Blackman) who lives by a rule that might well raise obstacles for Joe: "Only one thing I ask from you-be honest." Joe follows his mistress to Lon don to earn success on his own merit, but every thread of his being leads straight back home to Brown & Hether-sett's woolens...
With the score 2-2, Neville swished a jump shot from the foul line, Dressler stole the ball and scored on a fast break, then connected on a 15-footer. Neville swished a jumper from the key and Sedlacek scored from inside after a beautiful thread-the-needle pass from Dressler. That made the score 12 to 2. The Wild-cats whittled the margin to six points early in the second half but never came any closer. Harvard's largest lead was 17-62 with about five minutes to play...
Brown's main work is running. And that is work enough. Pro football today is dominated by thread-needle quarterbacks and jitterbug ends-except on the Cleveland Browns. About half of all offensive plays in the pros are passes. But on the Browns, 60% are running plays, and Jimmy Brown carries the ball on 62% of them-an average of 20-odd plays per game, Sunday in and Sunday out. The best passer in the game can be replaced; Baltimore's Gary Cuozzo demonstrated that last week when he took over for the injured Johnny Unitas and threw...
...Slender Thread. Luckily for Konz and his New York-bound fellow pilots, it was a sparkling night, and they could see one another hovering over the darkened city. "You know, we're living on a very slender thread," he said. "If the weather had been bad instead of extremely good, there could have been a disaster...