Word: heeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underbelly of the Western "free" nations reveals a startling and potentially dangerous weakness. Race tensions and hatreds, while long played down as having no real effect on the ability of the Western alliance to oppose Communism, flare forth as a glaring reminder that this could be the Achilles' heel that Khrushchev has been looking for. It is a situation made to order for those trying to sell Communism as the panacea for all the tragic ills suffered by the black man at the hands of "democratic" governments...
...some fairly silly plot necessities. When Tony springs his FBI status on Janet, she thaws no faster than a glacier to a lighted match. But when he produces a TV prop department pistol and identity card, and shows her his clannish insigne of rank (four dots "tattooed" on his heel-"J. Edgar Hoover has seven"), Janet melts into a my-hero mood and virtually orders Tony to kiss-and-not-tell in the line of future duty. Fellow FBI-Fibster Dean gets an erotomaniacal glint in his eye. The boys' joint mission, he tells Janet, is to trap...
...Robert Ruark's Poor No More, a portrait of a heel who seems to have affected both the author's prose and point of view...