Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mayor Richard Daley's front-line forces in Chicago must have been chosen for immovable heft, men built like trucks. Now they silently palm-smacked their clubs, their eyes as narrow as the slits in an armored car. Most of the convention delegates and dignitaries quartered in the fortress Hilton were at the moment three miles away at the convention hall, preparing to bestow upon poor Hubert Humphrey the nomination he thought would redeem the years of humiliation and corrupting self-abasement he had endured as Johnson's Vice President...
Congress must not reduce but rather increase Amtrak funding in light of new air-safety worries. Even the QE2 is regaining its old popularity as a transatlantic carrier. MARVIN L. DOUDNA West Palm Beach, Florida...
DIED. CLAUDETTE COLBERT, 92, effervescent star of an earlier Hollywood; at her home in Barbados. In films that included such classic comedies as It Happened One Night (for which she won an Oscar) and The Palm Beach Story, as well as a pre-Liz Taylor Cleopatra, she played women who, through charm and technique, had to persuade society that they were something other, better, more glamorous than they really were. In doing so, she became the epitome of couture elegance and city-girl pluck. The Colbert heroine walked the earth in sensible shoes and met each adversity with a throaty...
...surprised you forgot a major aspect of Bob Dole's position on tobacco, gun control and other issues [NATION, July 15]: once he makes up his mind, he seems to be full of indecision. JOSEPH B. MIRSKY West Palm Beach, Florida...
...airport (with the big sign I made with red magic marker) and participate in seminars on how to use art to teach, I guess it wasn't a good sign that I had to draw a picture of a window by my desk to imagine the outside world. Palm trees, turquoise water, white sand, sunset--I liked my picture...