Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...subject of Vietnam remains a fresh one for humorists, the subject of nuclear war does not, and the Lampoon drags out all the old and hackneyed approaches. Predictably enough, world leaders gamble for control of the world. ANNIHILATION! is offered as a game in which "each player must attempt to wipe out as many as possible of the human beings inhabiting the country of his opponent," and even Jester, Ibis and The Blot find themselves trapped in "The World After Armageddon...
...commuter himself on the Long Island Rail Road, Davidson listened patiently to quite a few gripes and some tall tales fresh from trackside, then told his colleagues that he was not overly optimistic. Little in the research filed by TIME reporters across the country indicated that complaining commuters were in for much immediate relief. In fact, Washington Correspondent Juan Cameron, who interviewed Stuart Saunders, discovered that the busy boss of the country's biggest railroad seldom rides by train himself. He prefers autos or planes, and Cameron suspects he knows the reason. He took a trip...
...mission and driver of the car, and Lieut. Commander Ernest A. Munro, 40, chief of the mission's naval section, took the full force of the fusillade and died almost instantly as the car came squealing to a halt. The four Americans were casualties in a fresh outburst of lethal feuding between left-and right-wing Guatemalan extremists that has claimed more than 25 lives in the past month...
...caviar to his nurses, champagne to his guards, and threw an elaborately catered foie gras party for the whole hospital staff. Then, one night, he staged an equally elaborate escape: after sawing through the bars of his window (to throw police off the track), Aunay put on a fresh suit and walked out the door. Ex plained a hospital guard: "We never locked Monsieur Aunay's door. He suffered from claustrophobia...
Brodie says, with all the casual arrogance of an army sergeant addressing fresh recruits. It is hothouse precocity and not learning or wisdom that she instills. Instead of history, she maunders on about her World War I lover who died in Flanders Field the day before the Armistice. Instead of art, she lapses into erotic reveries about the sensual gratifications of Italian holidays...