Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...male impeccability and the kind of ageless elegance everyone dreams of attaining. But Gary wasn't having any-until last week, when he agreed to join the board of directors of Rayette-Fabergé. Grant, who will serve as a product and corporate consultant, jumped into the fragrant fray because he sees cosmetics as a means of unifying the sexes. Says Gary: "Why should they try to separate us so? We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more...
...draws $55 a month for disability; the kids are good for $156 more in AFDC; a vegetable garden and a chicken coop housing about 30 Leghorns take care of the rest. There is a TV set in the shack, and a large fray-feathered fowl refrigerator stored with home-bottled pickles, beets, scallions and ? two weeks of the month ? spareribs or ham burger. Eb wryly remarks that there are advantages to blindness: it gives him an honorable excuse for being on the dole. Since the hardwoods were lumbered off and the deep coal mines virtually gutted...
...against every stratagem that the besieging enemy could muster. Bombing the North Vietnamese with such precision that they were destroyed before they could ever launch their attack, the U.S. could justly claim a considerable victory at Khe Sanh without ever having committed its ground forces to the fray. Khe Sanh was, in fact, a landmark in the use of airpower in warfare-the first time that aerial bombardment has denied an attacker the ability to assault his target...
...swirling unrest, Alexander Dubček entered the fray, carrying the banner of Slovak nationalism. As party boss of Slovakia, he rose at a Central Committee meeting in October and launched a fiery polemic against Novotný for breaking his promises and neglecting the development of Slovakia. In a highly heated exchange, Novotný called Dubček a "bourgeois nationalist," one of the worst insults in the Communist lexicon. Dubček began working behind the scenes to oust Novotný from party leadership, gradually bringing together dissident Slovak leaders, university officials, economists and other liberals. When Novotn...
...nowhere, who confounded everybody by scoring heavily in the New Hampshire voting and demonstrating that the divisions within the Democratic Party were indeed deep.> ROBERT F. KENNEDY, Senator from New York, all along the likeliest man to challenge the President, but inhibited by fear that to join the fray would sunder the party, expose him to charges of opportunism, and wreck his hopes of assuming the office that his brother held so briefly...