Word: byword
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the man who took Liston's heavyweight title away in 1964. Then he was still calling himself Cassius Clay, and the jaunty slogan of his training camp was "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." Now at his headquarters in Miami Beach's Fifth Street Gym. the byword is "He moves like silk, hits like a ton"?and for good reason. Yon Cassius no longer has that lean and hungry look. After 3½ years of exile, he returned to the ring four months ago to dispatch California's Jerry Quarry with a third-round T.K.O. In defeating...
...Advertising of Minneapolis closed Fridays throughout last July because President Kenneth Oelschlager wanted to test whether more leisure would generate more ideas in a business that depends on brainpower. The staff whizzed through a heavier-than-usual work load, and "do it the July way" has now become a byword in the agency for more intensive and productive work. Metropolitan Life's assistant vice president for electronic installations, Edward M. Honan, reports no less satisfying results from the three-day schedule adopted for computer crews. "It is working out perfectly, and for the first time in years we have...
...done in the dark, and people are always falling off parapets and breaking their ribs." Polanski is bringing it into the daylight. His witches are not spirits, but real, scruffy women. His actors, wearing no makeup, speak the Shakespearean verse conversationally. Authenticity is Polanski's byword; he uses it to mean 'not so much chronological accuracy as "a look that can make people believe all this actually happened...
...outdone itself. On the cover of 200,000 pamphlets that will be distributed to British high school and college students and local medical clinics later this month is a posed reconstruction of a 200-year-old engraving of Giacomo Girolamo Casanova, the 18th century courtier whose name is a byword for sexual adventurism. It shows the world's most famous seducer kneeling before a bare-breasted and obviously willing maiden. The moral of the scene, says the caption: CASANOVA NEVER GOT ANYBODY INTO TROUBLE...
...many of HEW's other plague spots, the emotional disturbance at Mental Health involved both personality conflicts and political interference in scientific and medical matters. As director of the institute since 1964, Yolles was accused of arbitrarily imposing his views, rather than winning acceptance for them. The byword at NIMH became: "What Yolles wants, Yolles gets." He might have got more-and still be in office today-if he had been willing occasionally to settle for less...