Word: clouted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American commander in Viet Nam, General William C. West moreland (TIME cover, Feb. 19), presides over the complex of U.S. commands ranging from Lieut. General Joseph Moore's 2nd Air Division to Major General Lewis Walt's Third Marine Amphibious Force. The Army's biggest clout is contained in the recently created Field Force Viet Nam under Major General Stanley ("Swede") Larsen. Headquartered in Nha Trang in the largest and hardest-pressed of Viet Nam's four corps areas, Force V includes the First Team at An Khe, the 101st Airborne's 1st Brigade...
...relationship between the World Series and the season that precedes it is often purely coincidental. A team that won a record 111 games during the regular season loses four straight to one that won 97. A pinchhitter comes off the bench to clout two pinchhit home runs. A substitute outfielder makes one fantastic catch, brushes briefly with immortality-and for years afterward, people ask: Whatever became of Sandy Amoros? But last week's Series stuck strictly to the script...
...giving Tony Curtis his lumps in a TV rerun of a forgettable flick called Flesh and Fury. Anybody could see that it was not over yet: Tony's curls were still neatly combed. Bravely, he rose from the floor to smite his opponent a mighty clout on the mandible - and cheers rang through the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse at Chavez Ravine...
Actor Cyril Ritchard calls her "Acidy Cassidy." Director Tyrone Guthrie finds her "vicious and irresponsible." Contralto Marie Powers once threatened to clout her in the snoot, and had to be restrained from doing so. The object of these strong sentiments is the Chicago Tribune's deceptively frail Claudia Cassidy, whose barbed pen has made her the most widely read and feared critic of the lively arts in the Midwest. She has written finish to many a career in Chicago, notably those of two local conductors who left after continual Cassidy pannings...
Power, says Daley, must be joined with ideals. But first one must have the power, the "clout" as they say in Chicago. The son of a sheet-metal worker, Daley has spent his life on the public payroll and in the "organization," to reach what some consider the third most important elective office in the United States, following the President and the Mayor of New York. After helping Jake Arvey, boss of Cook Country's Democratic organization, boost Adlai Stevenson for the governorship in 1948, Daley became county clerk which, in effect, put him in control of patronage and voting...