Word: heeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...news to Lyndon Johnson at his Texas ranch. The President had taken a special interest in the case and had even announced on television the trio's arrest the day after Mrs. Liuzzo died. He warned the Ku Klux Klan then that he would bring it to heel. After talking to Katzenbach, Johnson said: "The whole nation can take heart from the fact that there are those in the South who believe in justice in racial matters and are determined not to stand for acts of violence and terror...
...Jumping is not an end in itself," Kehlet explains. "How you get up there and how you get back is not important. It's what you do when you're up there that counts." What he does way up there is a dazzling array of splits, scissors, heel slappings and twisting jackknives, all in keeping with the character. Earthbound, he stirs the air around him into an eddy of excitement. And always, his Puckish face is stamped with the infectious grin of a lad having a smashing good time...
Opportunities are also plentiful abroad. The Europeans, for example hanker for more and more U.S.-type goods and services. Recently, Americans abroad have begun to launch everything from "heel bars" for Europeans with worn-down shoes to recruiting firms for U.S. businesses seeking European managers for overseas. In many parts of Latin America, Asia and Africa, the risk-taking businessman will find waiting markets for housing and manufactured goods, can get attractive investment guarantees from the U.S. Agency for International Development...
...Reischauer's work notwithstanding, Viet Nam remains a potential Achilles' heel for Premier Sato, one which the leftists would dearly love to exploit. Having failed to bring him down over the Japan-South Korea treaty issue, they now will doubtless shift their emphasis back to Viet...
...Face of Fu Manchu. The re-makers of Fu Manchu are clearly aware that the nonsense of yesteryear taps a jumpy vein of contemporary anxiety-all those diabolical Chinese, seeking ways and means to make Western civilization heel to the Yellow Peril...