Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet U.N. mission headquarters itself, 200 New York cops formed a ring around the block, barricaded the corners. In the street, police cars and motor bikes purred; cars loaded with weapons stood by, and the mounted police clip-clopped steadily about, while untold numbers of plainclothesmen mingled in the restive crowds on the perimeter. On Khrushchev's first night in town, knots of Hungarian and Polish refugees gathered with banners that screamed KHRUSHCHEV IS A MURDERER, KHRUSHCHEV, GO HOME, and handed out pamphlets with such arresting titles as Nikita, Scat, You Dirty Aggressor, You Bloodstained Butcher, You Bestial Executioner...
...With little sense of pace, he barely qualified for the U.S. track team. In the finals, Davis' strategy was simply to stay with the field, then run every man into the ground. Coming around the turn, he accelerated past the leaders and headed for home at a clip that seemed to have him leaning backwards as his feet tried to run out from under him. Germany's Carl Kaufmann made a gallant dive at the tape, but Davis won in 44.9 sec. to break the world record...
Time was when high-spirited citizens of Buffalo Gap. Texas (pop. 335) let off steam by bucketing down the main street on their perkiest cow ponies. Then came automobiles-but little else changed. Everyone still barreled through town at a breakneck clip. The sheriff was twelve miles away in Abilene, as remote as he was in the old freewheeling frontier days of wagon trains and trail herds...
...authentic than the dated T-shirts and Levi's of the dancers, the onlookers could claim to be competent critics. On hand as extras, they were members of the Massadors Division of the Sportsmen, storm troopers from Manhattan's legions of delinquency. And with them-carrying a clip board and wearing striped toreador pants, white-flower earrings and gold sandals-was the woman who had rounded them...
...town of Girard (pop. 2,500), whence Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books issued in a smudgy, cerulean stream that sometimes reached 65,000 a day. In newspaper ads from coast to coast he ran his enticing list of titles-eventually more than 2,000-and invited readers to clip the coupons. Among those who did were the late Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who took a supply to the South Pole, and a Texas oilman who bought 14 packages of 700 books each (total cost: $486.50) to ensure his grandchildren a rounded education...