Word: butts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work of literature. In the 19th century, the book was accurately revalued as the first great biography in English, but its author was dismissed by proper Victorians as a whoremongering buffoon. "Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay called him, "a bigot and a sot, a talebearer, a common butt in the taverns of London." But Boswell was to have the last word -in fact, several million of them...
...President, who stopped smoking after his 1955 heart attack, told Secret Service men to order reporters entering the office to ditch their lighted cigarettes. He also took to thrusting ashtrays at visitors, and recently, while walking with a guest outside his office, swooped down to pick up a crushed butt and dump it in an ashtray...
...even those who ranked highest in the divine hierarchies were hardly more than invisible supermen. The Zeus of ancient Greece, although supreme on Olympus, was himself subject to the whims of fate?and besides that was so afflicted by fits of lust that he was as much the butt of dirty jokes as an object of worship...
...lines. He ignores taboos to snigger at his own gags, bravo his own songs. "This kid's come a long way," he says of himself. "I'd have him back, but he's too expensive." Week after week, he repeats the same business: lobbing a cigarette butt into the air like a grenade, then holding his ears as if waiting for the explosion; or stumbling drunkenly over to the piano to croon a few bars like "It's June in January/ 'cause I'm in Australia...
...been accused, on occasion, of being a "court hog," deliberately getting in his opponents' way-a capital crime in squash. ("There are two ways of dealing with a court hog," explains a player. "First you talk to him. Then you let him have it right in the butt.") He is also a bit too temperamental for traditionalists' tastes-protesting volubly whenever he thinks an opponent has blocked his way, flinging his arms toward heaven when he misses a shot...