Word: treetop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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School First. As basketball players go, the Big O is no loose-jointed skyscraper. Solidly built at 6 ft. 5 in., 199 Ibs., he depends on lightning reflexes and graceful coordination rather than treetop height. Oscar makes all the shots from anywhere on the floor with devastating proficiency. Last year Robertson had the advantage of playing with a talented big teammate. 6 ft. 9 in. Connie Dierking, who had to be watched too. This year Dierking is gone, and Robertson is a marked man. Opposing teams can afford to take outlandish liberties in concentrating their defenses on him. But with...
Problem: how to drop an atom bomb from treetop level-and live to file a report. The solution of this esoteric flying problem is a scientific version of the "toss-bombing" that was used in the Korean war, when pilots of fighter-bombers released their bombs with an upward flip of the plane so that the bomb was tossed into caves sheltering enemy troops. Both Air Force and Navy have been working to upgrade toss bombing into a way of dishing out atom bombs safely. Last week a little information about the new technique was made public...
...other end at East Street, a mile away. On Saturday nights the clatter of ragtime music mingled with the wail of ambulances. Its leading citizens have been as bizarre as Beale Street itself: "River George," a giant roustabout of bloody fame; "Tittiwee" and "Black Slick," both pimps; "Treetop Tall" and "Coal Oil Johnny," two policemen; "Speedway," a gambler; and "Dr. Scissors," a famed Beale Street medicine man. They frequented such dives as Peewee's, a citadel of early jazz, the Hole in the Wall, and such infamous gambling dens as the Grey Mule and Hamet...
NATURE designed man's body for a groundling's life, never more than treetop height above the earth's surface. In the upper reaches of the atmosphere or in the airless space beyond, man is as much out of his element as a mackerel marching across the Sahara. But unlike the mackerel, man is determined to transcend his environment. He reaches for the stars. A short half-century after the Wright brothers skittered over the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk aircraft now on the designers' boards will fly at heights...
Rabbit's off-field capers also became a legend, even in baseball's rough and ready era. There was the time when the Boston police found Maranville and Jim Thorpe high in a treetop, yowling like banshees as they played Tarzan. There was the hot night in St. Louis when the Rabbit dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy...