Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a good deal of chatter about whether the Senator needs his mother to wipe his nose; with all due respect to Mrs. Rose Kennedy, isn't it possible that it is not the Senator's nose which needs her attention, but his perspective...
...even being asked, hoping to receive favors in prison from friends of Franzese. Sher's testimony, although unsubstantiated, was enough to raise doubts in the minds of the jurors. All four defendants were acquitted, and Mosley was left to smother his rage. "The long arm of the law isn't so long, is it, Jimmy?" says Detective Price to his boss. "Who has more connections, the cops or Franzese...
...wild blue at an age when most of her contemporaries were shopping for rocking chairs; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Bunker was 65 when she earned her pilot's license; a year later she took off on the first of three transcontinental solo flights ("Motoring just isn't safe enough," she explained) and at 71 rode through the sound barrier in an Air Force F-100F Super Sabre. Two years ago, she even applied to be an astronaut. "I could have done it," she insisted after NASA turned her down...
...isn't Winesburg, Ohio. Rather it is soap opera, a sort of superserial in which the lovable characters are sometimes handled with such consummate affection by the author, with such descriptive refinement of feeling that it approaches art. Of course, there are those organ-tone poems about the seasons. Characters inexplicably appear and just as inexplicably disappear. Chapter after chapter goes absolutely nowhere. But the reader gets hooked nevertheless...
They tried, though. In our hour of triumph, while the Eagle was still on the moon, our carping critics kept on trying to suggest that we had no right to feel pride in Apollo because the poor were still poor. Back to the milking machine, old cow. Pride isn...