Word: dump
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Nelson, 44, is a survivor of the Nashville Country & Western mill who has become a near deity to fans of his gentle country rock. He broke into the honky-tonk circuit 20-odd years ago, playing broken-bottle clubs like the County Dump and the Bloody Bucket outside Fort Worth, where chicken wire protected the performers from airborne bottles. In 1960 he moved to Nashville and spent the next twelve years writing hits for other performers: Crazy for Patsy Cline, Hello Walls for Faron Young and standards like Funny How Time Slips Away...
...Play the tips. Forget betting and dump your dough on code books and breeder's guides. Then spend the change on tootsie-fruitsie...
...first rocket-pressurized with a bicycle pump and launched from a local dump-failed to fly. Some of his later models flew only too well, taking off from sites in Germany and occupied Holland to impact on London with horrifying effect. But if Wernher von Braun, who died of cancer last week at 65, is remembered by future generations, it will probably be for his postwar achievements. As one of the most valuable war trophies carried home by the U.S., he headed the team that developed the Jupiter C rocket that put the U.S. into the space race by launching...
...because they felt the tight-fisted management of M. Donald Grant was shortchanging the team out of any possibility of pennant contention. The fracas that ensued among the local hacks was almost as intense as the dissension within the team. The Post called for the board of directors to dump Grant and manager Joe Frazier; Dick Young in the News said Grant should get rid of Tom Seaver, Jon Matlack, Dave Kingman and the rest of the "crybabies." Venerable Red Smith of the Times thought this indictment of Seaver, a three-time Cy Young award winner, a bit harsh; Young...
TIME Senior Correspondent John Steele, then the TIME-LIFE Washington bureau chief, remembers how Adams got the word. After hearing from Alcorn, Ike agreed to dump Adams. But he himself would not wield the ax against his close friend. Ike apparently reasoned that the task of cashiering Adams properly belonged to the political chief of the party, since it was essentially a political affair. Eisenhower asked Alcorn and Nixon to talk to Adams. He told Alcorn: "You've got to handle it. It's your job." Alcorn summoned Adams from a vacation in Canada to give...