Word: plucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outhouse on a twenty-by-twenty lot under the New Haven Railroad tracks") and nostalgic concupiscence ("There hasn't been an organized wife-swapping party in Darien or New Canaan for five years. All we do is grow gardens, take the kids sailing, and drink"). Author Ham has pluck, as his Keats-cribbed title shows, but perhaps he should have changed it to "A Peek...
...that the Ken nedys, and not the Government, would be picking up the tab, he took to the Senate floor in a boiling rage to denounce the Kennedys and their foundation. "The long arm of the family of the junior Senator from Massachusetts has reached out and attempted to pluck this project away from the U.S. Government," Scott rumbled. "At this moment, they appear to have been successful." He hinted at a possible investigation of "the questionable uses to which a supposedly charitable, tax-exempt money...
Lifting It Up. Discoverer XIII was aimed at a patch of Pacific Ocean 60 miles by 200 miles in size. It hit its target with an accuracy that proved embarrassing to the Air Force: C-119 planes assigned to pluck the capsule from the air with grapples were saturated with radio signals from directly overhead, could not get a fix on its position...
Surrounded by his vast company of experts and workers, and by Brothers Bobby and Ted, Jack Kennedy was ready to pluck the fruit of seeds he had nourished so well over the months. In his pocket, secured, checked and double-checked like an audit of the U.S. Treasury, was his packet of certain votes so persistently gathered around the nation. And yet, with all the smell of victory in the air, the Kennedys were allowing for mischance, miscalculation-the sudden outbreak of an emotional riot, perhaps, that might start delegates stampeding in the wrong direction...
Sunny & Secure. Though the story of Hubert Humphrey, the poor boy, has had currency for years, and it is certainly true that he has known the bony pluck of poverty in his time, a lot of the story is pure hokum. Today the Senator has an income of some $30,000 a year, two homes, two automobiles, and Italian-style cuffs on the sleeves of his stylish suits. Nor was he born poor: his boyhood in Doland, S.Dak. (pop. 550) was as sunny and secure as any American boy could ask for. With his older brother Ralph and two younger...