Word: lair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stinging lines for fast money and vast attention, and makes himself a victim of his own villainous cause. He played darling devil's dare to the Women's Cause, and set them up as its defenders. It's like the sneaky fox who sets Mama lion raging in her lair. The anti-hero teases the hero into vengeance. And so Billy Jean King, like any American hero, could do what she had to do with justice on her side...
...this didn't just start in high school either. The parochial underground organization tapped promising snowball throwers around Revere Park for a place of importance in their youth football movement in the fall. They lured the trusting ill' taters into their lair by dangling Notre Dame-Southern Cal tickets in front of the poor unsuspecting felias. I mean the movement knew all the methods of warfare in child psychology...
George was already a handsome and promising catch. In his sophomore year at Dakota Wesleyan, the college he attended along with the twins, he was dubbed "glamour boy" by the yearbook editors. George and Eleanor nursed their courtship along over sodas at the Tiger's Lair in the basement of the main hall. George remembers that things really got serious when both he and Eleanor tied for top grades on TIME'S annual current-events quiz. "The professor gave us the test," recalls McGovern. "We both got a 98 out of a possible score of 100. It kind...
When Chama roughs up one of his hired hands, Clint signs on to guide a party of vigilantes to Chama's lair. The vigilante leader is a lowdown land baron (the redoubtable Robert Duvall) whose holdings are threatened by Chama. "We can cut your ears off," the land baron warns Chama partisans. "We can cut something else...
...marching to downtown Boston is a first step. Sending telegrams and letters to key Senators and representatives is another. Signing and circulating petitions is a third. Plans are coalescing for a mass action later this week in Washington: we should count on going to confront the monster in his lair. All the alternatives may seem fruitless, yet they must still be attempted. The survival of the world--astonishing as it seems--may depend on our actions over the next several days...