Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with clubs in hand. In an age of Black Panthers, white vigilantes, and apparently millions of armed and angry individuals, there would already seem to be a surfeit of quasi-military partisans. Threat, however, tends to breed counterthreat. Out of the people traditionally identified with the word ghetto has come an unusual group called the Jewish Defense League-whose members posed before a synagogue for last week's ad and called themselves "nice Jewish boys...
...baseball, Nixon likes to mingle with the players. Frank Gifford, the sports broadcaster who once played halfback for the Giants, recalls Nixon's days as a New York lawyer: "He is a football nut. He used to come to the dressing room and ask everybody probing questions about the game. When I lived near Yankee Stadium, I used to have people over after the game, maybe a dozen players, and Nixon would come. He didn't ask dumb questions." Sports stars are frequent guests at the White House; Arnold Palmer, Bart Starr and Billy Casper dropped by recently...
...acids, oils, phenols, ammonia, dyes, chlorine, sulphate, iron, copper, bleach, cadmium and formaldehyde into its waters; the coal mines near the confluence of the Ruhr disgorge calcium deposits and sludge; the steel mills of Cologne contribute iron dross, furnace slag, oils and fats. As a result, the Rhine has come to be known as "Europe's longest sewer...
...training camp at Grossinger's resort, the slab-chested challenger, Jerry Quarry, 24, growled: "I'll come out burn-in'." At the nearby Concord Hotel, the undefeated champion, Joe Frazier, 25, growled: "I'll come out smokin'." Fight fans have learned to expect that the loud er the talk the duller the fight - but not this time. At Madison Square Garden last week, both fighters were burnin' and smokin' in one of the hottest heavyweight bouts in recent years...
Some fans fancied the fight, which determined the heavyweight champion of six states (New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine, Massachusetts and Texas),* as a bitter white-black confrontation. But it was more a clash of styles: Quarry the classic, come-to-me counterpuncher v. Frazier the swarming, go-get-'em slugger. Beyond that, each man was hungry-ring talk for the kind of cunning and courage that are born of deprivation...