Word: towered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flailing Arms. The first half belonged to Russell. Tireless and amazingly agile, he stretched his 6-ft. 101n. frame until it seemed to tower over the taller Chamberlain. When Warrior guards tried to feed Pivot Man Chamberlain with soft, overhead passes, Russell was there-arms flailing-to bat the ball away. When Chamberlain leaped for his famed "fallaway" push shot, Russell leaped with him leaning into Wilt just enough to disturb his delicate aim. By half time, Chamberlain had scored just nine field goals, was so frustrated that he shook a clenched fist angrily at the air. Only...
...known liberals in Phoenix are harassed by anonymous telephone calls. The wrath of the rightists is sometimes turned toward their idols at the first hint of clay feet. When Frank McGehee's National Indignation meeting in Dallas was unable to raise a pair of conservative Republicans. Senator John Tower and Congressman Bruce Alger, on the telephone-after both had agreed to address the gathering on the phone-McGehee angrily took the stage and shouted: "They have signed their death notes as politicians in the U.S." Several minutes later. Alger came to the phone and all was forgiven. A McGehee...
...performance record set by Oscar Asche's Chu-Chin-Chow, which opened in London in 1916. It has also surpassed Broadway's record-holding Life with Father by 521 performances.* The Mousetrap has become a prime attraction for British tourists down from the provinces, rivaling the Tower of London, and the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace...
...general. As soon as he mounted the scaffold, he read the inscription on his coffin . . . and pulling out his spectacles, read a treasonable speech. ... He said, if he had not taken the sacrament the day before, he would have knocked down Williamson, the Lieutenant of the Tower, for his ill usage of him. . . . Then he lay down; but being told he was on the wrong side, vaulted around, and immediately gave the sign of tossing up his arm, as if he were giving the signal for battle...
...broken automatic I.B.M. time clock bell-ringer is responsible for the silence emanating from Memorial Church bell tower yesterday and today...