Word: kisses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gebel-Williams teaches them to leap by dangling meat on the end of a stick. A fine leap earns a bravo, a poor one stern-voiced disapproval. (In performances, lazy tigers get a swift kick on their bottoms, good ones may be rewarded with an embrace and a kiss.) "The greatest danger," says Gebel-Williams, "is that they will kill each other." When a fight starts, he wades in and breaks it up with a blow to the snout...
...your little brother is planning to join the Class of '75 via the waiting list, you can tell him to kiss the Harvard experience goodbye...
...Church's references to Lewis Carroll, Clifford Odets, the Gershwin brothers and others who do not normally appear in business stories. For instance, Church once began a story about bank closings with the Gershwin lines: "Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers/Long as you've got a kiss that conquers...
...simplicity, the purity of the idea has proven irresistible. After being picketed and besieged by mail, the Justice Department became the league's first convert. Attorney General John Mitchell agreed to deport the Mafia-as a word, that is. In a confidential memo the Mitchell kiss of death was to be reserved not for the Mob, but for all Justice Department employees who used the terms Mafia and Cosa Nostra officially. The league subsequently persuaded the film makers of The Godfather, which is about practically nothing but the Mafia, to excise the hated term from their screenplay. That...
...sense a good deal of enthusiasm for the race this year." race organizer Phil Youngman said yesterday. "There will be a lot of crew jocks on the field. all of them vying for that kiss from that girl from the Wellesley yacht club as they cross the finish line...