Word: mering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never a man to think small. His last gesture before leaving office was to proclaim the addition of 7,500,000 acres to the National Parks System. That announcement proved to be premature when President Johnson turned down Udall's proposal and approved the allocation of a mere 384,500 acres. The public snub prompted the Secretary angrily to shout an offer of resignation to President Johnson over the telephone, an incident that Udall now greatly regrets...
...studs." But there was a shortage of such types on college squads in 1968. The New York Giants, for example, are desperate for defensive linemen, and they had to settle for Defensive End Fred Dryer from San Diego State, who stands 6 ft. 6 in. and weighs a mere 228 lbs. Giant Coach Allie Sherman airily predicted that Dryer will put on some weight before the pro season starts in September. He had better...
...Cambodia, the nose and chin from a 1948 Chevrolet, the hooded eyes from a stuffed hawk. Even the voice seems assembled, an oboe with postnasal drip. It all appears a shambles?until it begins to work, stunning audiences with articulate force. His current comedy, Jimmy Shine, is a mere vaudeville of the absurd. But within it is the vortical power of Dustin, pulling in the laughs, the cast and the audience. He growls like Durante, drones like W. C. Fields, shambles like Groucho Marx, and dances like a good-natured puppy. Yet the elements are his own?so much...
Hollander returned the favor by coming pretty much as he was too - blue velvet jacket, white silk shirt with ascot, bell-bottom trousers and long hair. To him, that kind of dress is no mere gimmick: "I feel hypocritical in tails, it's just...
...Lowell House absurdities. But, in order to follow the text from Genesis, he jilts the pachyderm before the playlet begins in favor of the more renowned Eve. After all, Eve has her points. As played by Leesa Freedman, Eve tends to do a bump and a grind when a mere bump would suffice. Nevertheless, she's an amusing sharp-tongued every-woman, who insists that her husband stand up to God like a man. And Eve favors hiding after the apple because "God is love and love is blind...