Word: bers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used in killing Abel, the Fry Bible does. In showing the world's first fratricide, Fry has the psychotically jealous Cain pick up an ass's jawbone-si, si, Samson, an ass's jawbone-and bash Abel. The jawbone was custom-built out of hard rub ber. Cain missed Abel's upper cranium the first time he used it, and the scene had to be interrupted for nearly a week until the black and blue patch subsided...
...transformed a blue-collar, militant workers' movement into a broad-based, respectable middle-class party that hard ly ever mentions Marx. Alone or in coalition, Socialists now rule five of West Germany's eleven states and 48 of the nation's biggest cities. In Septem ber they scored impressive gains in local elections in the Saar and Rhineland, whose formerly hostile Catholic populations know that the "new" Socialists have abandoned their attacks on the church. The latest national public opin ion poll gives the Socialists a 7% lead over the ruling Christian Democrats...
...baked plaza behind the U.S. Capitol, TV vans hummed like hungry insects. Marching in disorderly array up the steps to the Senate cham ber came group upon group of summer tourists, sunglasses on and cameras slung high. Inside, the Senate gallery was packed...
...were to be come the most powerful of Senate Democrats entered the hallowed cham ber. They were Lyndon Johnson of Texas and Robert Kerr of Oklahoma. Bobby Baker spotted them as real comers-and he made certain that they saw him the same way. The relationship with Kerr was cemented first; before very long Kerr was tipping Baker to profitable stock investments, something that the tough, rough oil millionaire did for few others. Next, Baker ingratiated himself with Johnson. Recalls a former Johnson staffer of Baker: "He was an unabashed lackey, a bootlicker. He'd think of all manner...
...Harvard stole the Irish ditty Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms. Before World War I, Yale lifted Germany's patriotic Die Wacht am Rhein for its own Bright College Years. Harvard mined the Marseillaise for On to Victory, and Columbia hitched Stand Columbia to Deutschland über Alles...