Word: weights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chirping, "Harold be Thy name." He tries to please the ladies by mixing divinity with lust, but somehow he never quite makes the scene-the redheaded heroine has to employ her husband when she brings the novel to its mystical climax. "She laughed into his throat as the chill weight pitched over her, warm beneath the chill. The wantonness of it at noon with all the summer world at work while with the furious young angel she mounted higher, deeper, until with a shudder the blue air burst and they fell, an amen of exhausted wings...
Perhaps the best Crimson performance came not from a winner, but a fourth-place finisher. Captain Art Croasdale, competing before a tiny crowd in the afternoon field events at Northeastern, got off a 59' 6" toss in the 35-pound weight...
...lifetime spanning the Industrial Revolution and the Space Age, the Empire he set out to defend had evaporated. Pax Britannica had become a Pax Americana, sustained by a weight of resolve and physical might that Churchill had fruitlessly implored his own countrymen to accept as the price of peace. His words, his example, his courage were indelibly engraved on the minds of free men. With his passing. the world was diminished and felt it. Amid all the public outpourings of tribute and grief, no words struck a nobler note than the heartsick message that Winston Churchill broadcast to the people...
...Sunday," grieves the cathedral's permanent organist, Marcel Ruello, "there's a new accident. We just never know what's going to come out." What often does emerge is an unsettling chorus of wheezes and groans, death rattles of a grand old instrument buckling under the weight of time. Unable to stand it any longer, one Chartres parishioner, Publisher Pierre Firmin-Didot, has launched a nationwide fund-raising campaign to help "Chartres refind its voice," as one newspaper...
Born. To Senator Robert Francis Kennedy, 39, and Ethel Skakel Kennedy, 36: their ninth child, sixth son (her third caesarean); in Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Weight: 8 lbs. The new addition fulfills Ethel's oft-expressed wish to have as many children as Bobby's parents had. It brings the number of Joe's and Rose's grandchildren...