Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speaks English well, but with a thick Russian accent. He smokes a great deal (a habit he acquired at 15 when jailed for spreading anti-Czarist propaganda), holding his cigarettes in the European manner -- between thumb and index finger with palm toward the mouth...
...doors behind which lurk, respectively, a hungry tiger and a nubile damsel. The skit preserves the tricky non-ending from Frank Stockton's The Lady or the Tiger?, but it scarcely matters. To fill in the non-beginning and the non-middle, the dancing girls thrash around like palm trees in a tropical hurricane. A hurricane has a better plot...
...Philippine Civic Action Group?were setting up camp beside U.S. troops in the South Vietnamese jungles of Tay Ninh. American wounded, airlifted from Saigon, were being treated at hospitals outside of Manila, and U.S. fighting ships ?back on rotation from the Tonkin Gulf?lay at anchor in the palm-fringed Philippine harbor of Subic Bay. B-52 bombers from Guam swept past the Philippines before making their bomb runs over North and South Viet...
...Martinis. Because of its versatility, vodka has also replaced rum as the prime ingredient in the more outlandish mixed drinks. Fruggers at The Daisy in Beverly Hills between exhibitions fuel up with White Russians (vodka, Kahlua and cream) or with the vodka Orange Julius. Their counterparts in Miami and Palm Beach go for the Bog-Fog (vodka and cranberry juice-known to New Englanders as the Cape Codder) or the Palm Bay Intrigue (pineapple wine with vodka and a squeeze of lime...
...models, involving about $1 billion in sales all told; company executives had reached their agreements and planned staggered publication of new price lists "in order to avoid suspicion" during conventions and "under the guise of so-called 'official' Plumbing Fixtures Manufacturing Association meetings" in New York, Chicago, Palm Beach and other cities...