Word: jousted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hustler. A young poolshark (Paul Newman) takes on the old champion (Jackie Gleason) in a sort of chivalric joust of the cues on the Cloth of Green. Director Robert Rossen makes an uncouth theme breathe with a smoky poetry and sometimes ring true as a struck spittoon...
Garbage. But the inexhaustible Khrushchev never ceased to bounce and joust. Night after night he partied with everyone from the Afghans to the Uruguayans, held high-pressure sales sessions with neutralist leaders, slipped into impromptu press conferences at the drop of a question. More and more, his responses rasped with irritation-as if he could not stand the quiet. To a reporter who asked why he felt that the U.N. had to have a threeman executive to achieve U.N. impartiality, he replied: "It is said God alone was able to combine three persons in one. But then...
...head man's illnesses. Khrushchev had just spent two weeks in the tropical heat of Indonesia, where he had shown clear signs of weariness, and then had returned to wintry Moscow. But San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher, who carried on an eight-hour conversational joust with the 65-year-old Khrushchev at the Kremlin last week, came away saying that Khrushchev "looked as if he would like to go on for another eight hours." If and when Khrushchev's French trip was laid on again, it would undoubtedly be more modest-fewer towns, fewer banquets...