Word: asses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice was curiously appropriate. Touring a show of experimental art in 1962, Khrushchev was startled by what he saw. He likened it to "painting done by an ass with its tail." Neizvestny was the most prominent artist represented, and he argued forcefully against Khrushchev for an hour. Though the party chief did not change his views on art, he was impressed by Neizvestny's courageous defense and, as he left, told the artist: "You are the kind of man I like." Later, after his forced retirement, Khrushchev expressed regret for having argued with Neizvestny...
...until he is 40. For now, he sees no reason to think about much else. In that single-minded devotion he is like most other rodeo hands. "I can't really say I'm looking forward to this forever," says one, "but I know that if my ass ain't spinning around off some bronc's back, I just ain't happy or content...
...running away with the tournament. Two shots back, tied for second, were two men who epitomize the drab, jockish, predictable touring pro: Tom Weiskopf, the close-cropped, 6 ft. 3 in. Mr. All-American Boy who walks around as if there were a one-iron shoved up his ass; and Jim Weichers, a 6 ft. 2 in., 220 lb. midriff-bulging country bumpkin type, who lets his tongue hang out when he swings a golf club. Hill had to win out over those two clowns, and I had to beat the fat old schlock-slingers who never left the press...
Then Weiskopf snaked in his birdie to go four under. The gallery erupted, and Weiskopf gestured "charge" with his left fist clenched. The one-iron seemed to shove itself even farther up his ass...
...inappropriate to stay. Once Ford was gone, the talk turned tough. "There are only so many lies you can take, and now there has been one too many," complained Arizona's Conservative Barry Goldwater. "Nixon should get his ass out of the White House-today...