Word: fer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson mounted a frisky filly and helped cut calves from the herd. An old cowhand, watching, said: "That fella's been in the saddle afore." Just then the pony skittered, Lyndon lost a stirrup and grabbed for the pommel. The old fellow added with a twinkle: ". . . but not fer some time...
When Castiella left, there was hardly time for an aide to wipe out the ashtrays and for Rusk to glance swiftly at an other position paper before the arrival of the next foreign minister, Peru's Fer nando Schwalb Lopez. With Schwalb, Rusk talked economics and the Alliance for Progress. An hour later, with Ire land's Frank Aiken, the subject was the Congo. With Brazil's Joao Augusto de Aranjo Castro, the proposal for an atom-free zone in Latin America came up. Rusk said the U.S. would accept such an arrangement if it included Cuba...
...puts all three big horns in his mouth at once, and blows like a whale. What spouts forth sometimes sounds like a bagpipers' band skirling The Campbells Are Coming. But most often the sounds belong uniquely to their maker, Roland Kirk, who meshes a thrumming beat, a fer tile imagination and an impish humor to achieve an exciting union of the pa gan and the modern spirit - as if Pan were suddenly found piping merrily in a rush-hour subway...
...Michael Gough makes a wonderfully.sinister Lord d'Arcy. There is a splendidly splashy scene in which a man is stabbed in the eye. And there is a gorgeously juicy line, spoken by a ratcatcher to the horrified heroine (Heather Sears). "Oi cud let yew 'ave baoth rats fer tappence," he says sweetly, turning on the charm. "Mike a lavly pie, y'knaow...
...town's big stadium, pumping away together at 21 different tunes. In the enormous (3,500-seat) tent erected for the occasion, the bands played weekends-from early afternoon until early the next morning. Among those present: 40 emotional Italians of the Corpo Musicale del Dopolavoro Fer-roviario of Milan who nearly blasted the $40,000 tent to pieces with Cam Amati, a musical description of attacking Italian tanks in World War II; three bands of sardine fishermen and rice workers from Portugal, who traveled almost two weeks by bus in order to perform for two days at Kerkrade...