Word: m
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very noble of the 15 former greats to call for tennis to clean up its act, but I'm sure they would like to have said that it's too bad the big money came after they were all over the hill...
...World War II. They tell you to go to the draft board and sign up. Well, I signed up." Besides, he had a grudge to settle against Castro for closing down the casinos after seizing power in 1959. According to Trafficante, the mobsters considered "poison, planes, tanks. I'm telling you, they talked about everything." Eventually they chose poison pills, but for reasons that have not been fully explained, the would-be assassins, two Cubans, failed to carry out the plot. Trafficante told the committee that he knew nothing of any attempts by Castro to retaliate against Kennedy...
...slots will open. At 53, Walker had plenty of time for a comeback. Instead, he will try for the first time to make a life outside the Army, helped by retirement pay of $38,000 a year, just $15,000 less than his general's pay. "I'm not embittered," he said. "I'm young enough. I can do something else. I'm not going out to pasture...
...says the dirt comes from mainland China clinging to the roots of flowers and vegetables shipped to Hong Kong. Says Dahl: "If enough Americans buy a square inch of Red China dirt, before long we'll have removed the entire country from under their noses. What I'm proposing is one of the sneakiest conquests in the history of the world." He adds: "This is the year of the dirt-not the horse or the cow or the turkey." Well, maybe the turkey...
...years ago the city dealt with a previous gift from Cornell (a 600-lb., 15-ft. sculptured lotus) by having it dismantled. This time Cornell anchored the sculpture to stone in the courtyard. To anyone ungracious enough to question his motives, he replies: "I'm not someone who runs around unloading white elephants...