Word: minuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Political Minus. The hearing ended, but the dispute was not over. The quick-tongued, wiry (5 ft. 9 in., 155 Ibs.) Yorty has always taken on the most formidable foe he could find, whether it be the "entrenched downtown interests" in Los Angeles or the Kennedys-and no one has ever battled with him and come away unscathed. Back home in Los Angeles, Yorty called a press conference. Smiling as if he had just come from a health resort instead of the steam bath of a Senate hearing, Yorty charged that he had been caught in "a trap...
Even if Sam Yorty did not have all the answers he should have had, and even if he exaggerated his lack of power, their confrontation was probably a political plus for him and a minus for Bobby Kennedy's political fortunes in California, a state that has long had to endure outside barbs. While Yorty's longtime foe, the Los Angeles Times, criticized the mayor's "indifferent performance" in fighting poverty, it came down hard on the subcommittee's "remarkable obtuseness in its failure to comprehend how the city and county of Los Angeles function...
...gusty wind snapped in at 20 knots across Ohio's Clinton County Air Force Base, but all systems were Go. "T minus seven and counting," boomed the range officer's bullhorn. ". . . Five, four, three, two, one-ignition!" And with that, a 12-in. plastic, balsa and paper rocket zoomed aloft bearing a one-ounce payload of lead to the somewhat suborbital altitude of 800 ft. "Good shot," cheered the range officer. "A good bird...
...training-camp holdout by veterans demanding pay increases that would put them on a par with untried bonus rookies. Among the balkers: All-N.F.L. Guards John Gordy and Ted Karras, Ends Darris McCord and Ron Kramer, Flanker Pat Studstill, and Defensive Back Bruce Maher. The Baltimore Colts were minus their two top pass receivers, Raymond Berry and Jimmy Orr, and the St. Louis Cardinals had two holdouts: Center Bob DeMarco and Split End Sonny Randle...
Dylan sets "Johanna"'s scene with this richly connotative sketch, a vignette in line with such earlier triumphs of concretion as "Love Minus Zero," (Opus...