Word: bareness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Humphrey to continue to campaign in this vein is hardly admirable but at least logical. He has nothing to lose and everything to gain if he can awaken old phobias about Nixon. Whether it is prudent politics for Nixon suddenly to begin emulating his rival's bare-knuckled tactics is another question. The kind of speeches he made last week could serve to revive images of him as a reckless partisan. This can only spur Democrats to fight harder in the campaign's closing days...
...Bare Feet and Bathrobe. When the Orchestre de Paris left last week for an American tour, the usual thing would have been for the U.S. ambassador and his wife to have the conductor and the concertmaster to dinner. Not the Shrivers: they asked all 110 members, from Conductor Charles Munch to the tym-panists, and included a batch of French music critics in the bargain. Shriver gulped down his dinner and table-hopped. His characteristic opener: "Very glad to have you here. What else do you think we should be doing...
...disaster. "I just about had a heart attack when I missed the opening height on my first two attempts," said Toomey. He pulled himself together to vault 13 ft. 91 in., tying his personal record. A 206-ft. i-in. javelin throw kept him in first place, a bare 61 points ahead of West Germany's Bendlin, who had moved into second with a monumental heave...
...modified his running style somewhat," Sargent says. "When he in his first came out for the team, he played in his bare feet. Now that he's using shin guards and cleats, he can concentrate more on running...
...styles himself "Dr. Tony." Where Agpaoa ever picked up the title of Dr. is unclear; he is a school dropout (at the third grade) and, said Dorman, is a former sleight-of-hand artist. He claims that he can perform abdominal, heart and even brain surgery with his bare hands, using no anesthesia or aseptic precautions. He also claims that he can close the surgical opening without leaving a scar, which is perfectly logical, since his laying on of hands actually involves no opening...