Word: guns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bears' have no big gun. All the members of their starting five are averaging about 10 points per game. With two men at 6-5 and one at 6-6, rebounding is their major asset...
...giving in to it fully or successfully enough. While enjoyment of sex has increased for many, the "competitive compulsion to prove oneself an acceptable sexual machine" makes many others feel neurotically guilty, hence impotent or frigid. As a fellow analyst puts it bluntly: "We are always anticipating the 21-gun salute, and worried if it doesn't happen." This preoccupation with the frequency and technique of orgasm, says May, leads to a new kind of inverted Puritanism...
...because all stock exchanges were closed. It was handled with all the secrecy of a state document, but its tenor had been widely anticipated. Retail sales of pipes, including dainty little bowls for women, had boomed. So had sales of filter cigarette holders. American Tobacco Co. jumped the gun by beginning to market Carlton, a filter cigarette, with its tar and nicotine content-claimed to be well below the average for popular brands-clearly shown on the package...
Official forbearance eventually gave way under the pressure of the press. Jordanian troops escorting what was soon dubbed "the papalcade" eventually resorted to muscle, swagger sticks and gun butts to keep order in the unholy mess. Cesidio Lolli, sedate papal diarist for L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican daily, lost his temper after a manhandling by Arab Legionnaires. "You may be the soldiers of Herod," he snapped, "but please remember that I am not a Christian infant...
...this man loaned me money when I needed it, and I'm going to help him now." After a witness in an assault case testified that the defendant struck him with a whip, Taylor offered some judicial advice: "Don't ever let anyone whip you. Take a gun and kill...