Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nothing of the sort has yet happened, and in fact the Russians so far have failed to persuade any of the countries along the Mediterranean, including Algeria and Egypt, to permit them to build a full-fledged naval base. But even without such bases, the Soviets now drop anchor all along the rim of the Mediterranean and sail binocular-to-binocular alongside the allies. The Russians muscled into the Mediterranean, says U.S. Rear Admiral Richard C. Outlaw, "in a concerted attempt to alter the balance of power in this area." It is to keep the balance even that this week...
...overlooked, and Paper Lion attains brief beauty as a documentary on pro football. For ten silent minutes, the Lions prepare for a preseason exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals. With the unsmiling dignity of bullfighters, the players in the dressing room tape up their scarred knees and ribs, drop their false teeth and rings into a trainer's cigar box, suddenly smash their shoulder pads in explosive bursts against a tile wall. The game itself is a vivid swirl of colors and curses, as the sweating players pound out their fury against the enemy, then sit alone, gasping...
...championship playoff, the Chicago players presented him with the game ball. Halas himself thought so much of Allen that he brought suit in an attempt to stop George from going to the Rams in 1966. It took considerable pressure from N.F.L. Commissioner Pete Rozelle to persuade Halas to drop the suit...
Pike admits that he allowed his son to use LSD in their digs at the university. "Had I forbidden him to take trips in the flat," the bishop writes, "he would no doubt have gone out with friends when he wanted to drop acid. And then I would have accomplished nothing except alienation." By the time Pike returned to the U.S., he was convinced that the gap between them had been conquered. He was stunned when a priest interrupted evensong services at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco to tell Pike that his son had been found dead in a Manhattan...
Helmsing had urged the paper to drop the word Catholic from its title; the editorial pointed out that the N.C.R. had been conceived as a journal that was within the church but not an official part of it. "We intend to go on being a Catholic paper," wrote Hoyt, "concerned with Catholic activities, values and ideas. We do not consider ourselves to have been severed from the community...