Word: bum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bryan fanciers. Later, a Potomac, Md., innkeeper exploded when Udall, on a hiking trip along the banks of the Potomac River with, among others, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, marched into her place in a rain-soaked poncho. "Get out of here!" she cried. "You look like a bum...
...Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, only 7,813 diehard fans showed up to watch mild-mannered Champion Floyd Patterson initiate Challenger Tom McNeeley into his "Bum of the Year" club. A pug-nosed, ex-Michigan State footballer who once visited a psychiatrist to get his "viciousness" cured, McNeeley butted, elbowed, and threw four low punches in a row. Before he was finally counted out at 2 min. 51 sec. of the fourth round, McNeeley had hit the canvas eleven times (two were ruled "slips" by Referee Jersey Joe Walcott), sported a nearly closed eye and a raw strawberry that...
...Marvelous & Grimy. As the verminous tramp in Harold Pinter's The Caretaker (TIME, Oct. 13), Donald Pleasence, 41, succeeds in creating probably the grubbiest creature who has ever been seen on Broadway, beside whom the average Bowery bum would seem like the twin of Mr. Clean. For all the brilliance of the playwright, The Caretaker would collapse onstage without an actor who could make the old man both repulsive and sympathetic. Like Scofield, Pleasence got his early experience in Birmingham. Enormously popular on British television, he has wide and proven capabilities as a character actor and in leading roles...
...Patriots have often had their ups and downs within the space of a single game. In their Oct. 1 clash with the New York Titans at the Polo Grounds, the Patriots looked like world-beaters one minute and bums the next, with the balance coming to rest on the bum side by the weird score...
...machine-gun style of indignant speech. Wagner, who won his primary victory last September by denouncing New York City's Democratic bosses, now aimed at pinning the boss tag on Lefkowitz. Republican Lefkowitz, on the other hand, simply wanted to make it clear he thought Wagner was a bum...