Word: faraway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy split between Dean Rusk and Robert McNamara over Viet Nam, but neither was anyone denying that underlings in each man's department held widely differing views. And it almost looked as if the war in Washington were worse last week than the savage battle being fought in faraway Viet...
...reason is the popularity of scuba diving; hunting and collecting fish as Chiropractor Roberts does with his slurp gun is much more rewarding than spearing them. Another major factor has been the jet age, which has brought the coral reefs of Fiji and other faraway sources of exotic fish within a few hours of the U.S. This shorter travel time, plus new sleep drugs which make fish inert, thus reducing their oxygen intake by two-thirds, means that more fish can be transported in less water-and hence sold more cheaply...
...years later, Feigner decided to take his four-man show on the road, sent out 385 letters to towns and cities across the U.S., offering to perform the four against nine act for money. He got only one reply, from a town in faraway Florida, so off to Florida he went with three teammates. Since then King Eddie and his courtiers have performed in every state of the U.S. except Alaska, as well as in Latin America and Canada...
...next year Douglas married Mercedes Hester Davidson, divorced wife of a former Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Mercedes had been his research assistant, even attended auto mechanics school to learn how to change tires and spark plugs on their faraway trips. But for all of that, something was amiss. Two weeks ago, Mercedes won an uncontested divorce on grounds of cruelty (TIME, Aug. 9). Five days later, Bill Douglas, 64, and Joan Martin, 23, were married; the following day, Mercedes married her third husband, Washington Lawyer Robert B. Eichholz...
...Ugly American. Ambassador Brando, in a Ronald Colman mustache and a Fred Astaire top hat, matches ideologies with a native revolutionist in faraway South Sarkhan. Most of the Americans involved in this fanciful adaptation of the Burdick-Lederer novel are so lacking in charm that it is hard to decide just who is the ugliest...