Word: cuff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Janet, a U.S. State Department protest, and an announcement that the mounted cops who had ignored Garcia's pleas for help had been suspended. The final flourish was the arrival of a delegation of East Indian women who brought a document of thanks and a pair of gold cuff links, then placed a garland of pink oleander and purple madaar flowers on the correspondent's stitched-up head...
...historical record, the program is matchless, because no book could give a sense of it nearly so well. It shows Truman at his off-the-cuff best-and worst. In this week's show, for example, he can't resist asserting that generals in general make lousy Presidents. Not only was Grant a bad one, according to Harry, but also "the very recent one, about whom I hesitate to talk...
Speaking off the cuff to a crowd in Quincy House Junior Common Room, flamboyant trial lawyer Melvin Belli last night mentioned in varying detail the topics of the Jack Ruby trial, the self education of Caryl Chessman, the American judicial system, and the weakness of U.S. law schools...
...meet installment payments on appliances, furniture, the car or personal loans. Nearly everyone shares in the $17 billion debt burden spawned by credit cards, charge accounts, single-payment loans and other short-term credit. While their grandfathers would have considered them reckless and irresponsible, these on-the-cuff customers have stimulated the current economic expansion and are turning the U.S. into the world's first credit-based society...
Meanwhile, Miller's Democratic counterpart, Hubert Humphrey, was getting even more heated up in the enthusiasms of the campaign. Outside San Jose, Calif., he halted his motorcade in mid-procession to change a wilted shirt for a fresh one. In Sharon, Pa., he lost his wristwatch and cuff links to a mob of squealing girls. At Erie, a contingent of 63 teen-age Demzelles formed a corridor between Hubert's platform and his limousine, begged to be allowed to kiss him. Each got her wish as Hubert beamingly worked his way down the line, allowing all 63 girls...