Word: gents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Incredulous, the Francophobe New York Daily News editorialized: "And this is the gent who said he was brainwashed by Americans in Saigon...
Between a bloodletting by its foes and a force-feeding from its friends, the Administration's poverty program was in danger of total renovation on the Senate floor last week. The pro gram's critics sought to dismember Sar gent Shriver's Office of Economic Opportunity; its champions strove to heap half again as much largesse on the OEO as the White House had requested or wanted in a year of planned retrenchment. In the end, after an elaborate series of votes and floor maneuvers, the Senate passed a slightly enlarged version of Lyndon Johnson...
...than ever. Last October, the court took under consideration two cases involving booksellers from New York and Kentucky who had been convicted for selling such obscene publications as Lust Pool and High Heels. A third case concerned the right of Arkansas to suppress and destroy various girlie magazines, including Gent, Bachelor and Swank. Though it had taken the cases to consider other issues, the court finally reversed all three judgments on the ground that none of the publications was obscene...
Landry, "just fast enough to get over the goal line"-and has already scored 14 TDs this season. To catch Meredith's passes, they have Flanker Gent, a 6-ft. 4-in. jumping jack, and Split End Bob Hayes, the world-record holder (at 9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash...
...things have changed," says Flanker Pete Gent of the Dallas Cowboys. "When I joined this club two years ago, nobody did anything but jeer at us. If there was a crowd waiting at the airport when we returned from a game, we figured they had ropes." To day, a huge electric sign in downtown Dallas proclaims, HOME OF THE COW BOYS - WORLD'S FASTEST TEAM, and in the Cotton Bowl last week 80,000 fans turned out to watch their heroes beat the Cleveland Browns 26-14 for their eighth victory of the season (against two losses...