Word: necks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...comment-and the best put-down of the narrow-gauge expert. Once, he relates, a group of mice held a council to determine what they should do about a voracious cat. Finally one young mouse came up with a proposal to put a bell around the cat's neck, providing the mice with an early warning system. But with their tunnel vision, none of the assembled specialists thought to ask the most crucial question until a grey old mouse-a generalist, no doubt-rose. Who, he asked quietly, would put the bell around the cat's neck...
...dead. Some 4,700 Japanese also died in the invasion, the first in a series of amphibious operations that sent U.S. forces island-hopping across the Central Pacific toward Japan. Robert Sherrod, the TIME and LIFE correspondent who filed the story of Tarawa in 1943 after leaping into neck-deep water and wading ashore with the fifth wave of Marines to hit the beach, has long been saddened by the realization that the island's name no longer evokes an instant, horrified response. "A whole generation," he said, "has matured without knowledge of a battle the like of which...
...begonia, bougainvillea and poinsettia to lobster, raspberry, strawberry and watermelon. The designer called the look "hippie gypsy," and it included tiny bra tops covered by bolero jackets, Hungarian tunic blouses combined with tights or flowing midiskirts and curly hairdos bound up with kerchiefs. Jewels glinted from every ear, finger, neck, wrist, waist and ankle. Scott's version of this year's costume look was the hit of the show; it was also evidence that Scott, five years after he began designing clothes for his own Milan boutique, has moved up to rival Emilio Pucci in the flamboyant...
...hard, realistic, profit-minded basis, any advertising agency that had at its disposal the millions of dollars the Republicans spent, the scads of top echelon organizational brains, and four years of "scientific" advance planning, yet could only bring forth a neck-and-neck race, would be headed for extinction...
...Harvard student said he had seen a policeman push a pregnant woman sprawling to the ground. Another said that when he stumbled the cop who had pushed him said, "If you trip again I'll break your goddam neck...