Word: butts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most respected: Franklin Roosevelt, "although I had to learn to like him as one learns to like olives." And "The fact remains that he laughed only perfunctorily at my jokes." Roosevelt, furthermore, made George the butt of F.D.R.'s own sometimes broad practical jokes, which George also never quite got over. Once in 1937, to a crowd of folks gathered around the Roosevelt train in Sparks, Nev., Roosevelt suddenly introduced George as a district judge. Before George knew it he was thrust out before 10,000 people to make a stammering speech. As the train pulled out of Sparks...
Throughout the movie a bewildered and buffeted Chaplin tries to act with dignity, but somehow he never succeeds. When he is driving a Rolls Royce, he screeches to a stop to race a bum for a cigar butt; yet when he is down and out, he spends his last few cents to buy a flower from a blind girl. There is laughter in "City Lights," but that isn't the sole reason for Chaplin's universal appeal...
...ring history and featherweight champion (except for three months) through the past eight years, figured that at the advanced fighting age of 28 he had learned all the tricks of his trade. A fast man on his feet and a fairly sharp puncher, he could also wrestle, gouge and butt with the best of them. Last week, nonetheless, Harlem's 24-year-old Sandy Saddler taught Willie a few new holds...
...language of diplomacy, the Administration seemed to be trying last week to tell Chinese Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung that he had nothing to worry about from the U.S. The policymakers were convinced that the U.N. forces would win in Korea if Chinese or Russian Communists didn't butt in, and apparently they hoped that a little cajoling might keep them out. Whatever their reasoning, their pronouncements sounded like an attempt at appeasement...
...express his gratitude for Marshall Plan aid, a Cretan mountaineer named Estakios Protopapadakis sent a present to Harry Truman: a silky-haired, two-year-old mountain goat named Kri Kri. "Kri Kri doesn't smell too strong," Protopapadakis assured the President, "and he won't butt...