Word: balling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bringing Ball back into the Government, Johnson obviously hopes to demonstrate his determined commitment to honorable negotiations with Hanoi. The appointment may also serve notice to Europe that the Administration is still mindful of that continent. And before his U.N. appointment, Ball threw his political support behind Hubert Humphrey...
Former Under Secretary of State George W. Ball was the Administration's most articulate war critic when he quit Washington for Wall Street in 1966. Candidly calling himself "the devil's advocate," he persistently opposed deepening the U.S. involvement in what he terms the Vietnamese "gluepot." Far more Europe-minded than his friend Dean Rusk, Ball believes that by making Viet Nam a major battleground with the Communists, the U.S. has failed to cope adequately with De Gaulle, jeopardized any new approach to China, and let the problem of a divided Germany fester far too long...
...private citizen, Ball has openly expressed his strong doubts about U.S. foreign policy, notably in his recent book The Discipline of Power, but has characteristically kept his criticism within diplomatic bounds-and has kept the President's friendship as well. Despite their differences, Johnson often quietly called on his former Under Secretary of State for counsel, and only recently Ball drafted a secret policy paper for the President on the Pueblo seizure...
...game. "Legend placed the fountain of youth in Florida," he reported, "and coaches like Tony Cuccinello here, hitting his billionth fungo, suggest that the legend is true. With the fungo bat, an instrument as thin as a diplomat's umbrella, Cuccinello and other artists can place a ball just where a perspiring fatty can't quite grasp it. It's as precise and complicated an art as needlepoint and gets about as much attention." Investigating other byways of sport, Broun reported on the Copacabana waiter who felt that "presiding over the organized frenzy" of the club complemented...
Having demolished his desk, the rebellious adman this time really does cut loose. Determined to go straight, Andrew (Oliver Reed) leaves the business, the boss, and the ball-and-chain. To further prove his good intentions, he even jettisons his two mistresses. Soon he gets an honest job at the Gadfly, a drab little literary magazine, where his principal duty is rejecting manuscripts. The rest of the time he accepts the adoration of a puddingy secretary (Carol White) who finds him as irresistible as he obviously finds himself...