Word: come
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kitchen." Then he announced at a party rally that Britain, which has been having more than its share of economic difficulties, was now "on the way to an economic miracle." Many friends and foes alike thought that the statement was an absurd exaggeration and would come back to haunt...
...last week, he called Wilson's record "the Rake's Progress" and his economic forecast "hooey" and "complacent nonsense." The British are not used to such harsh, direct attacks on their politicians, and Heath's blast prompted that unorthodox but stoutly Tory peer Lord Boothby to come to Wilson's defense. Boothby rose in the House of Lords and, in ironic tones, took note of Wilson's ability to recover. "The Prime Minister may not walk on the water today," he said, "but I believe he may well be walking on the water...
...Medal of Honor. Last week, another honor was bestowed as the destroyer escort U.S.S. O'Callahan was commissioned at Boston Navy Yard. Donning a sailor's white hat, Richard Cardinal Cushing presided, observing that war "can make men into brutes. But out of it can also come achievements that expand the human spirit and remain an inspiration for all future time...
...scales inched close to the 250-lb. mark, the lady decided the time had come for action, even though she knew the "Fat Farm," as she called it, would be no Fun City. So Mrs. Richard J. Hughes, 46, wife of the New Jersey Governor, checked into Kempner clinic at Duke University Medical Center for a course in dieting. The pounds didn't melt away, and at times she had to resort to fasting to hurry the process along. Yet today, 18 weeks and 80 lbs. lighter, Mrs. Hughes is down to size 16. The magic formula: medication...
Dozens of other anglers have tangled with Big Daddy-and always come off second best. A few years ago, Bermuda's Captain Russell Young had an epic 31-hour battle with a marlin that he estimated at 15 ft. long. Young actually brought the fish to gaff six times. Each time the gaff tore loose, and Big Daddy finally escaped when the line parted. Last year Dr. Lyman Spire of Fayetteville, N.Y., was trolling off St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire...