Word: badger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...father. Johnson talked of his youthful reluctance to shoot animals and how, when hectored by his father, he finally shot a rabbit between the eyes, dropped the carcass at his father's feet, then went to the bathroom and threw up. Later. Kearns points out, L.B.J. would mercilessly badger such visitors to the ranch as John Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey to go out hunting...
...Harvard had lengthened that lead to a full length. Wisconsin was in second, followed closely by MIT and Northeastern. Shades of the last two years, the Huskies began to move at that point, driving by MIT and moving on the Badger crew...
...people in the nearby Riviera town of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, the cavern is known as Le Trou du Tachou (the Badger's Hole). Hidden away on a Mediterranean hillside covered with olive trees and scrub oak, it was discovered in 1962 by a little girl looking for shiny stones for her collection. What subsequent explorers of the 16-ft. by 16-ft. grotto have found promises to be a great deal more significant: the habitat of the earliest known manlike creatures ever to dwell in Europe...
...Perry Mason is, of course, defeated by the memory of Raymond Burr--by his forceful presentation, by his impressive physical presence, the slightly aloof wit he could direct toward Burger and Tragg, the consistency of his presentation. Monte Markham tries to badger witnesses in the Mason style. He tries to intimidate Hamilton Burger. But when a witness cracks, or when Burger allows Mason a point, Mason seems to have won only by edict of the script. Monte Markham doesn't win his cases; they're granted him by CBS decree...
...London. Working with him as associate editor and senior writer will be Curtis Prendergast, a veteran chief of TIME'S Paris, Tokyo, Johannesburg and London News bureaus. David B. Tinnin joins the new staff from his post as a correspondent in our Europe bureau, and Priscilla B. Badger becomes head reporter-researcher. In New York, R. Edward Jackson, a former World writer, Rome bureau chief and deputy chief of correspondents, will serve as international editor, coordinating the new section with the rest of the magazine and planning further expansion overseas...