Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal lobbying in the corridors. Brother Bobby feigned indifference and pointedly did not join 38 co-sponsors of the amendment, but he worked actively behind the scenes for it. For the opposition, Dirksen set about swinging wavering Republicans back into line. His technique differs considerably from the arm-twisting tactics made famous by Lyndon Johnson. "Senator Dirksen doesn't work this way," explained New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, who supported the amendment. "He takes a little longer. He does it with oleaginous applications of one sort or another." On the eve of the vote, Dirksen felt certain that...
...beyond the U.S. compound, but four were gunned down. One managed to reach the mess hall and flip in a hand grenade. Special Forces Sergeant Horace Young, 34, who was already wounded in the leg, tried to bat the grenade away with his rifle butt. It exploded, tearing his arm to ribbons. Streaming blood, he staggered into the storeroom with the only weapon left to him: his Special Forces knife. There he found the Viet Cong grenadier, stabbed him and died. When Young's body was found hunched in the corner of the storeroom the following morning, the knife...
Signed by the Cards for a measly $4,000 bonus. Bob won 15 games in 1962-before he broke his ankle taking his cuts in batting practice. In 1963 he came back strong, won 18 and lost only nine. Then, last summer, he developed a sore arm: in one 18-day stretch, he started five games and was bombed for six runs in each game. Once again, Gibson bounced back. He won nine out of his last eleven games, for a 19-12 record, went on to star in the World Series-beating the New York Yankees twice...
...dead as the big apple. If it bumps and wiggles, that's the frug (pronounced froog). The rest are all charades. The dog, for example, is a slow-motion jerk (known in less erudite circles as the bump and grind), which is a slow-motion frug. Add a backstroke arm motion to the frug and you have the swim; add a tree-climbing motion and you have the monkey. Stick your thumbs in your ears and it's the mouse or the mule; up in the air, and it's the hitchhiker?and so on for the woodpecker, Cleopatra, Popeye...
...Miss." Thomas gained on Mrs. Liuzzo. "As we got almost even, Wilkins said, 'Give it some gas.' Gene sped up a little bit and put our auto immediately beside the driver. Wilkins put his arm out of the window approximately elbow distance, and just as we got even with the front window, there was the lady driving the automobile and she turned and looked around directly facing the automobile we were in. She looked directly at us. Just as she looked at us, Wilkins fired two shots through the window of the front of the auto mobile. Gene...