Word: humps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...valuable for the rocketeers who send them out of this world. So there was Dr. Wernher von Braun, 56, director of NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center, floating around the cabin of a C-135 jet transport while the pilot flew a precise "over-the-hump" curve to produce 30 seconds or so of weightlessness. Von Braun made twelve of the trips and marveled that the sensation was "exhilarating. You cannot imagine what it is like unless you experience...
...Chicago, where the Democratic cause had been staggered by police clubs the week before, Nixon received a warm reception from huge noontime crowds in the Loop. During his 45-minute ride through the heart of the city, confetti poured from office buildings. Signs screamed VIVA NIXON and DUMP HUMP-NIXON'S THE ONE. People jumped through police lines to shake the candidate's hand. While the excitement hardly matched a Robert Kennedy happening, Nixon, like Kennedy before him, suffered a scratched wrist and lost a cuff link to eager grasps...
...painters for sale to pilgrims to Calcutta's Temple of Kali. One of the most impressive objects is a brass figurine from Orissa; it shows the hero Krishna trying to deceive one of his admirers by assuming the head of a peacock, the body of a tiger, the hump of a camel, one leg of an elephant, one leg of a horse, and one hand of a girl holding a flower. The devotee, says the legend, saw through the disguise...
Ferocious Lion. Another ton or two is accounted for by Bodies Beautiful Gloria Roeder and Ed Allen, who work in much the same manner as LaLanne. Gloria, 43, fights "saddlebag thighs" and "dowager's hump" with such exercises as Double Hip Spanks, Thigh Thumps, Chin-to-Knee Bounces and the Pectoral Fling. For "viewer identification," she often has her six daughters, ages ten to 20, exercise along with her. Allen, 39, perhaps to compensate for a double chin, swathes his 197 Ibs. in skin-tight polo shirts and stretch pants, and dresses down his wavy locks with hair spray...
...novel by Buenos Aires Art Critic Manuel Mujica Lainez, who also wrote the libretto. In 15 taut, hallucinatory scenes that take place mostly in the mind of Pierfrancesco Orsini, Renaissance Duke of Bomarzo, it flashes back over the events of the Duke's "secret life, which like the hump on my back, encumbered my soul...