Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like his paintings, Braque was a man of many facets. He was an avid swimmer, a boxer, a wrestler. He played the accordion and drove speedy sports cars until age finally slowed him down. Then, capitulating completely, he bought a Rolls-Royce, explaining that ''it is as comfortable as a Pullman car and al most...
...daddies" (a gibe of undetermined origin) and "grem-mies" (gremlins, usually girls), those hangers-on who may never get wet behind the ears as far as surfing goes but like to immerse themselves in the dense jargon of the in group. To all, "baggies" are the loose-legged boxer swim trunks worn by the boys. "Hot dogging" is either class-A surfing or show-off stuff. To "take gas" or "wipe out" is to lose a board in the curl of a wave and land in the foamy "soup...
...pigeon and the scab nourished. When these tactics were protested by Ford's only son, Edsel, the old autocrat gradually withdrew from him, both professionally and personally, and gave increasing powers and recognition to his devious little chief of "internal security," Harry Bennett, a former sailor and sometime boxer...
...swimming trunks, see J. Press, 82 Mt. Auburn. Both boxer and narrow leg styles in patchwork or plain madras are now reduced 20 per cent...
Internal Revenue Commissioner Mortimer Caplin, a onetime amateur boxer who has been taking some quick professional jabs at expense-account living, last week issued his "final" rules on tax deductions for business entertainment. Every time Caplin has tried before to clarify what can or cannot be written off, he has only upset more businessmen, who are inconsolable anyway. This time, under pressure from the hotel and restaurant lobbies, he taxed himself to show sweet reasonableness by liberalizing the rules. Businessmen will find it easier than they had thought to charge off casual lunches, parties at home or a night...