Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only a few weeks before the Republican National Convention. A trans-Pacific jet lands at Los Angeles International Airport. Henry Cabot Lodge gets out, speeds away to the Palm Desert cottage of his old boss and friend, Dwight Eisenhower. There, before hundreds of newsmen and a battery of television cameras, Ike throws an arm around Lodge, extols his virtues and, without naming Goldwater, declares that what the Republican Party needs is a candidate after his own ideal of "progressive Republicanism." Despite that sendoff, Lodge still insists that he is not seeking the nomination. Rather, he says...
...team had beaten the U.S. in international competition, Williams studied movies of the teams in action. The Americans were faster, but they tended to slow down for the tricky pass, while the British made the transfer at full speed. The Americans also had a habit of waiting, hand low, palm down, trying to snatch the baton from their teammates. The British on the other hand, reached back, hand high, thumb up-and the incoming runner simply dropped the baton into his teammate's open palm...
Williams decided to crossbreed the two styles. His runners hold their hands palm down, in the classic American style, but the incoming runner slaps the baton upward into his teammate's palm, alerting him just before the pass by shouting "Hey!" In the 440-yd. relay, where even a fraction of a second is important, Williams staggers the passing points so that Stebbins and Ragsdale, the two fastest men, get to run 10 yds. farther than Meadows and Owens...
...WHITE West Palm Beach...
...Ottawa, Canada's capital, foreign correspondents are just about as rare as palm trees. There are only nine: one from Britain, five from Canada's next-door neighbor, the U.S.-and curiously, three from Russia. Why this heavy Soviet news focus on a government not regarded as of prime interest to Russian readers? If Ottawans wondered, last week Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson supplied an answer. He ordered one of Russia's three Ottawa-based newsmen expelled...