Word: fin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...home city until he could play among Manhattan's top brass-at the Copacabana. Now back for the second time (the first was in June), he showed up for work one evening last week in a two-tone Rolls-Royce, slipped a sidewalk bum an easy fin, and led his wife inside...
...party's candidate for the U.S. Senate race, New York County District Attorney Frank Hogan. After Hogan and other Democrats were clobbered, bands of anti-De Sapio reformers in New York City clustered around aging Eleanor Roosevelt, former Governor Herbert Lehman, and former Air Force Secretary Thomas Fin-letter (who had been done out of the senatorial nomination by De Sapio). They came within an ace of defeating De Sapio for the leadership of his home district in Greenwich Village, and they upended several De Sapio candidates in last year's primaries. They had Jack Kennedy...
...answer becomes understandable when the two fin-tailed monsters are identified. They were the first operational A-bombs ever built. "Little Boy," the slimmer of the two, was a duplicate of the 10-ft.-long, 9,000-lb. bomb that decimated Hiroshima. The 10,000-lb., spheroid "Fat Man," with its 5-ft. girth, crushed Nagasaki. Between them, the two bombs, each packing the punch of 20,000 tons of TNT, accounted for more than 200,000 casualties and dumped the world unceremoniously into the responsibilities of the nuclear...
...fatherhood. "Fill your needs elsewhere," he proclaims indignantly. She finds a rival (Jean-Louis Maury) and gets engaged-but the rival gets cold feet, and at the fade hero tenderly promises heroine that some day, surrounded by all the children her heart desires, she may even have a wedding. Fin...
Until one day he chance to fin...