Word: geared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confusion Compounded. At once, the capital's rumor mills, always idling, started to whirr in high gear with the message that there had been a coup and that key officers had been arrested. Riot police carrying wicker shields and tear gas began to cruise around the city, on guard for demonstrations; there were none. The confusion was compounded when a high-ranking government official leaked word that a coup attempt had been thwarted. Other officials denied there had been such an attempt, and President Thieu felt it necessary to go on nationwide radio and television to announce that there...
...leaves Campaign Planners pretty much last in the presidential image-making race. DDB had had a chance to air only a few commercials. The new Humphrey-Muskie group, which will run its first TV ad this week-fully a month after Chicago-faces competition that is already in high gear...
...plenty of tanks, but tanks cannot detect signals." Having learned just that, the Soviet commander in Moravia became so incensed at the persistent television coverage that he threatened to level the town if the station stayed on the air. Technicians thereupon switched off, temporarily. Meanwhile, cameramen were stuffing Bolex gear under their raincoats to shoot some of the most daring footage ever taken of the Red army at work. By week's end, just minutes ahead of Soviet secret police, the underground TV crew fled across the border to Austria...
...fold and Daltrey sings very tenderly, "Lily oh Lily pictures of Lily" with no accompaniment. It is clear that this break and pause represents the boy falling in love, and in the very next verse he proclaims his love. Just after the interlude and before the song swings into gear again, Townshend plays an ominous sinister grating wail on his guitar, a sound that apears for the first and only time on the record here. This is a presentiment of what we are to learn next which is that his love is doomed and so the falling in love...
...command posts of the major candidates were installed in the upper floors of the major hotels, surrounded by tons of electronic gear and cut off from unwanted intruders by suspicious guards. Richard Nixon's bunker is a 200-room spread (including penthouse) atop the new Hilton Plaza, a mile north of the Fontainebleau. The nerve center, a former men's sauna, will keep him and some 90 aides in instant touch with practically every delegate. Like the other candidates, Nixon is permitted a direct phone to ten delegations. He also has 125 cars at his command, as well...