Word: threshold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson attack was on the threshold of doom earlier this week when it looked as though Dick Ames' knee injury might keep him out of this afternoon's contest. The high scoring junior, who netted four goals against Cornell, played sparingly in this week's practice sessions...
Improbably, he got off a bus at the first theater he saw, asked for a job, and got one-painting sets and boiling glue. Two years later, he was making $5 a week doing walk-ons. This was the threshold of solvency, apparently, for he never went near a university or the Foreign Office...
...reluctant patient's life indicates his clear-cut and courageous thinking. A society has the right to prevent its citizens from committing suicide, whether that suicide takes the form of handling rattlesnakes in a religious ceremony, barbecuing oneself with gasoline, or refusing to accept medical care on the threshold of death...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology has come to the crossing of a "historic threshold" which will involve "changes in intellectual outlook, in basic academic policies, and in our range of interests," M.I.T. president Julius A. Stratton said in his report for the year 1963. The report, now available in paperback, will be officially published with all of the Institutes' reports this week...
...some people, the Brooklyn Bridge is just a bad buy; to the late Joseph Stella, it was the high altar of the American dream. In its shadow, he once wrote, "I felt deeply moved, as if on the threshold of a new religion or in the presence of a new divinity." His paintings of the bridge made him the foremost U.S. adherent of futurism, the Italian-born industrial-minded art movement that added space to cubism in the blurring and breakup of the realistic image...