Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inside the Paramount was trying to keep alive was nobody from the ten rock-'n'-roll acts on the bill, but a 39-year-old nerve end who goes by the name of Soupy Sales. As a comedian, he is hardly believable even when seen: a pastiche nut in kook's clothing, whose act wanders in and out of plain idiocy, with every tired old slapstick gag in the joke book thrown in free. Among other things, he throws pies. And his fans were right there with him, saluting their hero with salvos of everything from teddy...
Wilson was outspoken about Britain's determination to defend the pound, and bluntly said that anybody who thought his upcoming budget message would announce devaluation was a "nut case." Inevitably there was robust disagreement on Viet Nam. Wilson, despite thunder on his left in Parliament for instant negotiations, is adamant about supporting Washington's Southeast Asian policy, while De Gaulle wants negotiations as soon as possible. As a result, explained Wilson afterwards, "we did not waste a lot of time arguing about it." The Common Market got even shorter shrift, since Wilson and the Labor Party want...
...based on a legendary jump from the Brooklyn Bridge, and several would-be producers, looking before they leaped, had earlier dropped their options. Undeterred by the fears of other angels, Susskind and his Talent Associates-Paramount, Ltd. rushed in, somehow found $350,000 lying around. To round out the nut, they talked Columbia Records into ponying up $50,000 and got the remaining $250,000 from Producer-Plunger Joseph E. Levine...
...seriously strike Indonesia only if it actually bombed Malaysia or launched a massive invasion. What the British really expect is more of the same sort of hit-and-run harassment. But they have beefed up their guard, as one Whitehall official put it, in case "Sukarno goes off his nut...
Jimmie Shewmaker's daughters try to keep the garage doors closed. They do not like people to see what is going on in there and say, "Look - some nut's building an airplane in his garage." But Jim Shewmaker, 39, a salesman for a chemical firm who lives in a quiet suburb of St. Louis, knows he is no nut. He is a practitioner of one of the fastest-growing hobbies...