Word: pawing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...support for a bill." While he was Senate majority leader, Johnson's "treatment" became famous. In cloak room and corridor, in his baronial office or right out on the floor of the chamber, he would go to work on a colleague -squeezing his elbow, draping a huge paw over his shoulder, poking him in the chest, leaning so close as to be practically rubbing noses. On the phone (and he was seldom off it) he was equally effective. Hubert Humphrey once complained that the only way he could resist Johnson's hypnotic persuasiveness was by not answering...
...Then, 23 years ago, he wrote a one-act, 65-minute postlude to that play; Hughie is a kind of Iceman's ice cube. But O'Neill was a stage animal to the theater born, and even his minor efforts are brushes with the lion's paw...
From the South in recent years has come a corolla of gifted young novelists. Latest to adorn this company is Heather Ross Miller, 25, from North Carolina's Uwharrie River Country, where her first novel is laid. Heroine Anna Marie is obsessed by the memory of "Paw-Paw," her grandfather, "a stingy old man with a soul of tempered steel." When she is scarcely ten years old, Anna Marie stumbles upon "dirty old Paw-Paw" making love to his second wife. Later she watches from a hiding place when the half-crazed old man murders his wife and Anna...
...trend has been helped by collegians who for years have been referring to any really swinging types as "tigers." As the psychologists see it, the tiger is a symbol of virility; as the admen see it, it is a surefire gimmick: sales of U.S. Rubber's tiger-paw tires have almost doubled since it began its campaign, and tigers now absorb a third of the company's $6,000,000 tire-ad budget...
...overall evening is actually part fraudville and part vaudeville, and the vaudeville is quite good. A skillful little dog stands on one paw on its master's outstretched thumb. A girl spins and whirls in the middle of a rope whose ends are held in the teeth of two men. The sexiest item of the evening is a stripteasing marionette, who bumps, grinds, twists, and removes her bra to reveal the best shape on the hot side of the footlights. Patachou, the evening's headliner, is a once-great stylist who still has a touch of Piaf...