Word: ems
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...button on one shirt cuff as he told the Congolese to "roll up your sleeves, strip off your ties and get to work." Pop went the button on his other cuff as his bug-eyed audience began to realize that he meant them to follow suit. "Roll 'em up," Mobutu called to the uproarious crowd. "You too!" he shouted to his assembled Cabinet ministers, who sheepishly followed orders...
...wringing towels, bouncing up and down on the bench, shouting hoarse-voiced encouragement to his Hawks. "He's so intense that it's almost impossible to speak to him for ten or fifteen minutes after a game," says a St. Joseph's administrator. "He gets 'em up so far that after we won one game a couple of our subs were in the dressing room crying, and they hadn't even been in the game...
...success to his horse). Rodeo ropers pay as much as $5,000 for a quarterhorse, and most of them-like matadors-maintain practice rings of their own, where they train their mounts for months to anticipate each move of a zigzagging calf, to stop instantly ("sticking 'em into the ground," in rodeo talk) at the precise moment the lariat settles around the Brangus' neck...
...navigate his little black Porsche through Mass. Ave. traffic, you'd conclude, there goes a man completely out of his head. In God knows how many gears, he cut off buses, trucks, and pedestrians, ignoring the laws of Cambridge, physics, and common sense. "I got by 'em before they knew where I was," he claimed. His driving was almost a happening. Had it been less absurd he'd have been mashed, but as it was it was outrageously funny...
...special committee appointed by the President submitted a top-secret report proposing that the Selective Service System in its present form should be eliminated in 1967. "Those fellas in Washington pronounced us dead and were preparing for the funeral," says General Lewis B. Hershey, national director "Well we fooled em--We're back in business...