Word: butt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jones as Serjeant Musgrave holds back, refuses to show the fury in the words he speaks. Musgrave is no apologist, he is as cheerless and pinched a revolutionary as ever you will find at a Progressive Labor meeting. When Jones rages about the stage in the third act, rifle butt and bayonet swinging in murderous passion, the play suddenly has a purpose and a center...
Increasingly, Romney has become the butt of the kind of jokes that can kill a candidate. One, referring to his sometimes sanctimonious air, goes "It's all right for George to want to be President, but I object to his using the White House as a steppingstone." Another: "Deep down, he's shallow." When his supporters opened a special research office in Lansing, wags dubbed it "George Romney's Office of Presidential Exploration-GROPE...
...Samuel Townsend, 21, a draftee and former high-school athlete from Detroit, pitched grenades with deadly accuracy at an enemy now less than 30 yds. away. In some spots the fighting was even closer. Private First Class Edward Edwards, 20, clubbed down one surprised Viet Cong with his rifle butt. SP4 Richard Hazel, 21, sprinting for a rifle, literally ran into a Viet Cong. "I bumped into him," he said. "There were no fancy punches, I just knocked him down." An armed artilleryman finished...
...Reservoirs. Perhaps because measles always seemed to be an unavoidable part of childhood, it has not loomed as threatening as other diseases, and its characteristic red spots have long been the butt of comic-strip jokes.* There were almost 4,000,000 cases a year in pre-vaccine days. In more than 500,000 of the annual cases, according to Dr. Dull, there were complications such as middle-ear infections; in 4,000 cases, there was encephalitis often with resulting mental retardation, deafness or blindness. In 400 to 500 cases, the disease ended in death...
...hopes Abbott can enter the Freshman Eastern Tournament on March 18 at Army in the 177 class. "Abbott stands a real good chance of winning," Lee said. "We've really been pushing his butt this past week...