Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Birds chattered and giggled overhead. A long-tailed black lizard bobbed its head in the heat. Then the first line of the 55th went in, and the lizard was suddenly gone. The bush erupted with sharp bursts of automatic fire. An incoming mortar round decapitated a palm tree and left three men writhing and mangled. The periodic silences between bursts were broken by frightened screaming birds. Wounded men straggled back. Their black faces shaded gray by shock, they handed weapons and ammunition to their replacements. There was the unmistakable whistle of a 105-mm. howitzer. "Don't worry," said...
...Editor Douglas Auchincloss (Gemini), who wrote the cover story, is looking to the future with no little nervousness. Interested in the occult ever since a family maid told his fortune from tea leaves when he was a young boy, Auchincloss had a pair of horoscopes cast; he consulted a palm reader and interviewed a clairvoyant...
...Eagle's Roost. Even as new names trickled from the White House, the Senate confirmed one of Nixon's less admired appointments: Philadelphia Publisher Walter Annenberg as Ambassador to Britain. A close friend who has played host to the President on his visits to Palm Springs, Annenberg was coldly received by J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who told a Washington Post reporter that he was "simply not up to the standards we expect for our premier diplomatic post." Indeed, Annenberg's lack of experience, together with his reputation for ruthlessness, has already...
...admitted that he was something less than an expert in foreign affairs. Despite its size (circ. 505,000) and wealth, his Philadelphia Inquirer does not employ a single foreign correspondent. But he did offer at least to redecorate the embassy residence. Judging from his homes in suburban Philadelphia and Palm Springs, that alone should be worth the price of his admission to the post...
...Paul." Paul, of course, was not welcomed unequivocally by his fellow Christians, and for all her prestige, Dr. Mead is not considered beyond criticism by her colleagues. Younger anthropologists sometimes dismiss her broad field inquiries as no more substantial than "a wind blowing through the palm trees." Other Pacific investigators have produced evidence that runs counter to her assessments of tribal personality. Most of all, anthropologists stand aghast at the way her powerful mind sometimes links fact and implication with little more than pure faith. One of her sternest critics, Columbia Anthropologist Marvin Harris, says dryly: "The courage...