Word: mentioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...neglected to mention that there are very few full-time freelancers; almost all of us have a bag going for us else where. Alas, it is indeed a vanishing profession; but when was it otherwise...
Quite possibly, Romney did not fully comprehend the implications of that ugly term to brainwash.* In any case, it is unlikely that his opponents in either party will allow him to forget his gaffe-not to mention the cartoonists, who henceforth will surely not miss a chance to picture the Governor's cranium wreathed in detergent foam. And all can do it with impunity, since he did it to himself...
...outrunning revenooers on the South's mountainous "white-lightning trails." Richard Petty, who has been racing for money ever since he turned 21, belongs to the new school: the cool, engineer-minded youngsters who talk endlessly about "axle ratios" and "foot-pounds of torque" and bristle at any mention of the sport's indecorous beginnings. "Why don't people just forget about all that?" complains Petty, who answers to no nicknames ("If my mother wanted me called Dick, she would have named me Dick"), neither smokes nor drinks, shuns sportswriters, photographers and auto graph seekers, and insists...
...basking fish and let fly with harpoons. But, ah, for the sport fisherman, armed only with rod, reel, and a passion for punishment, it is an altogether different kettle of fish. Swordfishing, wrote Zane Grey, "takes more time, patience, endurance, study, skill, nerve and strength, not to mention money, of any game known to me." And Kip Farrington. who has probably landed more big fish than any man alive, says: "I would rather take one swordfish than five black marlin, ten blue marlin, or 50 white marlin...
...series of bizarre episodes, Gog finds himself involved with such hallucinatory historical characters as the Duke of Wellington, Cleopatra, and Alfred the Great, not to mention such odd fictive figures as the Bagman and the Crook. In a novel of this picaresque kind, an orgy is to be expected sooner or later. Gog's orgy comes promptly and seems to be under pre-Christian Druidic auspices, though the Marquis de Sade and Herr von Sacher-Masoch are present in postures appropriate to their eponymous status. Gog meets his spiritual twin, an evil ogre called Magog. He also finds...