Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never really tries to explain what makes the old man tick. And sooner or later, since he is writing an autobiography, Churchill is brought back to the problem of talking about himself. He has a lot to mention and not much to say. As an officer in a camouflage outfit, Churchill was on the beaches at Dunkirk-he later painted the scene-but his description is insipid. His family thought little of his love affairs -they called it "playing the ass in the bulrushes"-and he went on to have four wives. His family thought equally little of his desire...
...varsity basketball squad risks its two game win streak tonight against an ever-eager M.I.T. outfit. Game time is 8:15 at M.I.T...
With such views of fact and history, the ultras are able to find plots just about everywhere. According to some of their literature, recent revisions of the Bible are the works of Communists who want to pervert the Gospel. The Canadian Intelligence Service, a right-wing outfit that sells a newsletter south of the border, warns that mental health programs are designed to remold men's minds and put those who resist in the booby hatch. As one of the sins of the Kennedy Administration. We, the People! claims that "All FBI agents have been ordered to cease their...
...Constellation that went down last week was no Government-owned plane. It belonged to Imperial Airlines, a "nonsked" outfit with a "fleet" of four planes. The Army got hooked up with Imperial by a dismal series of events. By law-as enacted by Congress under pressure from commercial air companies-the Army and the other services are forbidden to transport troops by military aircraft in the continental U.S. on the theory that the airlines need the business. The law also permits nonscheduled airlines such as Imperial to bid for service contracts and because the penny-skimping nonskeds can generally underbid...
Julie is a chambermaid (Josefa) who is found in the nude (her favorite outfit) and unconscious, with only one accessory, a revolver. Beside her lies the dead body of her lover, a Spanish chauffeur who used to beat her "but never when he was drinking." They both worked for an aristocratic Paris banking family, the Beaurevers; the magistrate, influenced by Beaurevers' power, is all for clapping the girl in jail, case unheard. But his young assistant (William Shatner), fired with ideals of justice, insists on investigating. What ensues, in judicial quarters of dilapidated grandeur, is an intimately candid inquiry...