Word: elbowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First to die was John Kent ("Shob") Carter, 25, whose body was found one night in his psychedelically painted apartment. He had been stabbed twelve times with a butcher knife, and his right arm was severed at the elbow. A few days later near Sausalito, a pair of hikers discovered the body of William
Unquestionably, Susan Sontag tries too. The novel is arduously worked out, with the author always at the reader's elbow, adding explanations ("to a man wielding a microscope, his own seeing eyes are blind"), pointing out high spots, summing up. The only thing she could do (now) to help the book would be to write one of her well-reasoned essays to explain why she wrote...
...also prepared an emergency plan that had the virtue of simplicity: in the event of trouble, he would simply turn the city off with a hermetic round-the-clock cur few, thus isolating rioters, minimizing danger to the innocent, and giving the police and National Guard as much elbow room as they needed. Disturbances started when a group of Negro teen-agers left a church dance and began breaking store windows. Looting, sniping and arson immediately followed...
Wynn's spectacular slugging is the more remarkable because doctors did not expect him to play at all this year -if ever again. In Philadelphia last August, pursuing a long drive, he crashed into the centerfield wall at full speed-smashing his left elbow and wrist. It took a 45-min. operation and five months in a cast to get his arm back into an approximation of its original shape. But now, says Wynn without the slightest taint of modesty, "I have all the tools to be a superstar." For starters, he has pledged to hit 30 homers, drive...
...valued at $2,000,000 and destined for Southern Methodist University. This time when Meadows went to market, however, it was with a difference. Rather than put his trust in itinerant art dealers, he bought from Manhattan's top galleries. And to advise him he had at his elbow Dallas Museum of Fine Arts Director Merrill C. Rueppel. Said Meadows: "I am convinced that I am now getting the best advice on art. I am absolutely certain that I am in good hands...