Word: lair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone from beyond the Hudson, the Procaccino campaign must seem more than a little incredible. This is New York City, capital of New Politics and glamour, headquarters of the national communications media, lair of sophisticates. Yet, here is Procaccino, 57 and looking it, poor on television and ducking it when possible, suspicious of the press and at odds with it?here is the scion and heir of Old Politics, doing rather nicely by the estimates of adversary and ally alike...
Inevitably, the North Koreans dismissed Nixon as a "notorious war maniac," while the Communist Chinese paired Humphrey and Nixon as "jackals of the same lair." In the Communist Eastern European countries, Nixon arouses deep antagonism, but most believe that the circumstances of his election, and the Democratic majority in Congress, will force him to exercise moderation...
...from the valley aimed straight at the heart of Hue. Such passable weather as A Shau ever knows comes in April and May, and three weeks ago, under the tightest secrecy of any allied operation of the war, Operation Delaware was launched to punch into the Communists' craggy lair...
...divorce, Felix Ungar (Jack Lemmon) is a casualty of the war between the sexes. The same calamity befell his old pal Oscar, an alimony-poor sportswriter with a rambling eight-room flat on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Out of pity and penury, he invites Felix to share his lair. At this point Simon pulls the switch that brightens the screen: the partnership becomes a parody of a failing marriage. Oscar is the kind of host who offers his card-playing buddies green sandwiches that were "either very new cheese or very old meat." Felix is Mr. Clean, an uptight...
...untouchable Viet Cong. It has been a prime enemy redoubt since 1946, and what the Viet Cong have built in it no one but they know: no non-Communist troops have ever dared venture in, and its masters even kept villagers living on the forest fringes from entering their lair...