Word: monkeying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Wriston is troubled that "success is no longer perceived by large groups of people as being success. It used to be that if you were Henry Ford and got three fellows and a monkey wrench and built a great company, people gave you flowers. Today, if you create a great company, people take potshots at you because they think that behind every success there must be some dirty secret...
...bomb until West Germany agrees publicly to let the weapon be installed on its territory. Because of the bomb's importance to West Germany's defense, Bonn is expected to come around eventually. At the same time, according to a White House adviser, the decision "puts the monkey back on the Russians' back. Now we are giving them a chance to give us something real. If they do nothing, we'll end up with neutron warheads in Germany...
...some Walt Disney movie about an astronaut and a monkey going up together in a space capsule; after the movie, some guy came out and played too-happy music on a huge organ. Then my grandmother grabbed me and rushed me down to the second row so we could get good seats for the stage show. That was my first stage show, one of the famous Great Easter Shows, and it was just amazing. The way the Rockettes did that kickline and all those people flying around the stage in glittery costumes--even the orchestra was incredible. I never knew...
...Curious George" series is well known throughout the world. The little monkey became tremendously popular soon after the 1938 publication in France and England of the first book, titled simply "Curious George...
...Curious George" was Rey's second book. She and her husband had not intended to write successive books about the little monkey, but widespread acclaim for George persuaded them to continue his adventures...