Word: brush
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gentlemen," brffsks the general, "we are sending a man around the moon-this week! I'm asking for volunteers." The astronaughts turn pale, drop their eyes, examine their nails, twiddle their fingers, fiddle with buttons, brush their sleeves, blow their noses. All at once an astro-chimp, who happens to be standing by, grabs a fork and playfully jabs one of these reluctant Shepards of kingdom come (Tom Tryon) in the behind. "Yeeee-ooww!" he squalls. "That's our man!" the general bawls...
...time. Lockheed's manned birds were flying high. The Navy's lumbering antisubmarine P2r plane, the Hercules cargo transport and the F-104 all-weather jet interceptor brought 1961 sales of another $459 million. And Lockheed, the biggest beneficiary of the Pentagon's new emphasis on brush-fire mobility and military airlift, last March won a contract to build the big military transport plane of the future, the 158-ton. 550-m.p.h...
...instrumental trio. Slowly she sheds a shoddy evening gown while the audience yells, "Take it off, Baby, take it off!" When she has stripped down to pure buff, she bumps and grinds for a few minutes, then glides around the circle of ringside tables, stopping whenever a clean-cut, brush-topped young man reaches out to touch-test her salient features...
Despite a commendable effort to brush and polish his fading image, it now seems clear that L.B.J. is destined to occupy the obscure niche reserved for U.S. Vice Presidents during the past 173 years...
...stands silhouetted against a Gothic-American bay window in the empty parlor of an abandoned house. It would have been merely stagy were it not for its brooding strength; and for all their beauty. Chumley's houses and barns would be flat were it not for his lyric brush and the moods it evokes. A painting of three children's swings, hanging empty from a leafless tree, is filled with yesterday's laughter...