Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass the Wonderland Ballroom and a mean sub shop on your way to the grandstand. In the backround are the wooden hills and valleys of an amusement park where thrillseekers of a tamer sort celebrate. You follow the sports through a huge parking lot, jammed with Pontiacs, Caddies and Ramblers. You pay your 50 cents, mumble "Yes, I'm 21," and pass through the fateful portals...
...also rated on the quality of his ride-which means spurring the horse into frantic action. But not too frantic. On a saddle bronc, says Mahan, "you will have to spur fore and aft. If you spur him in the belly, he'll toss you into the grandstand." On a bareback ride, the idea is to "keep your body back and roll your spurs up the horse's neck...
PPPM. The U.S., as leader of the free world, could not comfortably sit by while Moscow made its grandstand play for the imaginations and loyalties of the world's youth. National student organizations were proliferating everywhere, and in 1950, N.S.A. and 20 other groups formed the International Student Conference as the West's counterweight to the aggressive International Union of Students, a Communist-subsidized youth front. The logical instrument of U.S. policy was CIA. The agency institutionalized its direct financial support of N.S.A. under its PPPM (Psychological, Political and Paramilitary) program, in 1952. William Dentzer...
...church officials involved in the day-to-day handling of ecclesiastical funds, the issue appears far more complex. Many strongly suspect that grandstand gestures of protest may in the end do more harm than good. Says Mrs. Porter Brown, general secretary of the Methodist Church's Board of Missions, which spends $16.6 million a year to support churches abroad, including some in South Africa: "If we take our money out of First National City, whom do we give it to? Barclays? Lloyd's? They are involved in South Africa just as much as First National City...
...grandstand finish occured when Eliot seemingly doomed as also-rans came from behind to beat Adams House in double overtime last Friday. Forerunner Jeff Jordan booted in the winner, what turned out to be Eliot's biggest goal of the season. The Elephants scraped up 11 men to beat doormat dudley in the first game Monday and then watched the seemingly impossible happen...