Word: wilting
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Finally, after days of such pressure, both sides began to wilt. At the first sign of a break, the President strode in to confront the negotiators, spent a full 43 minutes bombarding them with hard statistics and "a few pious thoughts," as he called them. He was in rare form. He flattered both sides, declaring that "Abel is an able fellow and a hard trader, but he has met his match in this fellow Cooper." He assured the industry that, with profits running at an alltime high, it could well afford a reasonable wage boost...
Roaring into Monticello, N.Y., in his custom-made lavender Bentley for a benefit basketball game, Wilt ("the Stilt") Chamberlain, 29, announced that he had brooded it over and would not, after all, accept $250,000 from boxing promoters to become the world's highest pug (7 ft. 1% in.). Instead, he will accept a $55,000 annual raise, to $125,000, to remain the world's highest-salaried basketball player. After he signed his new three-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, Wilt thought of a good friend and bitter rival, the 6-ft. 10-in. pillar...
...Wilt thou seal up the avenues...
...even exist two years ago. The pride of the Celtics was Bill Russell (6 ft. 10 in.), the N.B.A.'s four-time Most Valuable Player, a brooding defensive genius who gobbles sleeping pills and vomits from tension before every game. The pillar of the 76'ers was Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain, a giant (7 ft. 1-1/16 in.) among giants, who has scored as many as 100 points in a single game, who calls everybody "baby," including his lavender Bentley, and whose bitterness about the game almost equals his success...
...first it looked like a rout. While Russell controlled the backboards, covering Chamberlain like a shroud, Guard Sam Jones poured in 18 points in the first quarter, and the Celtics leaped into a 35-26 lead. Where was Wilt? All of a sudden, he was there and everywhere. He banked a hook shot high off the backboard, dropped a layup through the net. What's more, the rest of the 76'ers caught fire too; by half time they were ahead...