Word: parlay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years old on March 23, still has as pretty a set of gams as any actress in films. She displays them right up to the pelvis in the costume she wears as ringmistress and owner of an English circus, in which a killer at large perpetrates a parlay of improbable murders. One high-wire artist is garroted by his wire, another is skewered on a bed of bayonets, the manager gets a tent spike neatly through the noggin, and a Lady-Who-Gets-Sawed-in-Half gets sawed in half. In between, the usual circus acts-elephants, horses, dogs, wild...
...adjustment to civilian life is likely to be increasingly difficult and frustrating. The deferred students can parlay the degrees they earn in the next few years into high-paying jobs in government and industry. The disadvantaged, already darlings of the Great Society, can press for urban renewal and massive income transfer programs, such as the negative income tax, particularly after defense spending is reduced. But the veterans will find their experience in the arts of warfare of little use in peacetime. Coming disproportionately from the lower middle class, they must return to a society that is grateful for their service...
...position is a near-total retreat from the former demand that majority rule be effected before independence would be granted. Nevertheless, Wilson was able to parlay the policy into a major diplomatic victory. Observers had predicted that last month's Commonwealth meetings in London would collapse under pressure from militant African representatives. Instead, Commonwealth leaders issued a joint communique in which they affirmed the Six Principles, demanded that Smith submit, and threatened to request that the United Nations enforce mandatory economic sanctions if he refused...
...Pleasure of His Company (Harper & Row), now being serialized by McCall's, Fay recalls some other revealing Kennedyisms. "When the war is over and you are out there in sunny California," Kennedy told San Franciscan Fay in 1945, "I'll be back here with Dad trying to parlay a lost PT boat and a bad back into a political advantage." The next year, "Big Joe," as J.F.K. sometimes called his father, had his way, and Jack was running for Congress in Boston...
...Zero. Then there are those songs which, although unconnected with the war effort, become popular anyway and are ever after associated with the period, like Lili Marlene, Don't Sit Under The Apple Tree (With Anyone Else But Me), and Mairzy Doats. And, finally, there is the hinky-dinky-parlay-voo tradition of battlefield ballads composed by the boys themselves. Sometimes ironic, often obscene, and almost always derived from some other melody, these songs are refreshingly free of the jingoistic slush of the homeside ditties. Among their number are the pornographic They Were Only Playing Leapfrog, the hauntingly bitter...