Word: carded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of civil disturbance or the repression thereof. The involvement of press and television personnel is even more stupid than that of the public. The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card. The sanctimoniousness of McCarthy and Ribicoff, particularly, was too obvious. The police force in Chicago was the only thing that made it possible for McCarthy's heart to bleed in comparative privacy and for Ribicoff to speak of "police brutality" and "Gestapo tactics" without violent interruption. As a matter of fact...
...Deal" was Prime Minister David Lloyd George's campaign slogan of 1919, and Robert La Follette used it in 1924. But both usages were antedated in writings by Carl Schurz in 1871 and Petroleum V. Nasby in 1866. Otherwise the phrase is probably as old as card games...
...amphitheatre from nearby stockyard dunghills), folding bicycle (there is a cab strike), roller skates (carpet tacks scattered on the streets by the demonstrators may decommission the bike), wire cutters (in case delegate is trapped inside the amphitheatre, or outside because of pickpocketed credentials), all-purpose bail-bond credit card (if arrested), air mattress (in event of prolonged incarceration or inability to return to hotel because of trans portation problems), bottled water (should yippies manage to turn on the Chicago water supply with a lacing of LSD or other hallucinogens), canned rations (one rumor has suggested that food in the hostelries...
...COMBAT considers as its 'target areas' the Old Left and the New Left; the rebellious student groups; the peaceniks and the draft-card burners; leftward-drifting churchmen; the 'marchers'; the hippies; sections of the communications media." William F. Buckley Jr., suave guardian of what's Right in America, sounded uncommonly exercised in his communique drumming up $24-a-year subscriptions for his new newsletter, COMBAT. The twice-a-month publication will tackle the task of diagnosing "the extent to which America's current sickness is the result of organized infection...
...LEADERSHIP: "I have a certain skepticism about the indiscriminate use of the word 'leader.' I always remember the wife who read the fortunetelling card her husband got from a penny weighing machine. 'You are a leader she read, 'with a magnetic personality and strong character-intelligent, witty and attractive to the opposite sex.' Then she turned the card over and added, 'It has your weight wrong...