Word: potshot
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That would leave only Jack Kennedy between Powell and the White House -and Powell says he has already figured out how to handle Kennedy. Beginning next January, Powell plans to take "a potshot a week" at the President. And if he wins the Republican nomination, Powell will really set out after Kennedy: "I'll just build up every brick, brick by brick, in that wall around Berlin. I'll ask every day. 'Why didn't you put those planes over the Bay of Pigs...
Lincoln Day is the annual occasion for Republican orators to take to the field, potshot at the opposition, and praise the Grand Old Party. Last week there was plenty of potshotting and praising. In Niagara Falls, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller charged the Democratic Administration and Congress with a civil-rights record that "must constitute one of the most cynical exploitations of minority aspirations that has ever occurred in the history of American politics." Gibed G.O.P. National Committee Chairman William Miller in Battle Creek, Mich.: "To get a real top job in the New Frontier, you first must...
...presidency, and in 1956 earned Rhee's abid ing hatred by getting himself elected Vice President on the Democratic ticket. Rhee isolated him by excluding him from all participation in govern ment, did not even speak to him except on ceremonial occasions. Then an assassin took a potshot at him, hit ting him in the hand; Chang was so shaken that he retired to his home, surrounded himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality of the Rhee regime, many mem bers of Chang...
...Gazebo (Avon; M-G-M), Hollywood's reconstruction of the Broadway comedy hit, is a fairly successful piece of graveyard humor. The corpse is provided by a wildly improbable murderer (Glenn Ford), a young Milquetoast who writes and directs TV whodunits, and who takes a potshot one night at a particularly unpleasant blackmailer. When the whodunist sees his first real-life cadaver, he almost faints. When he wraps the body in a plastic tarpaulin, the plastic tears. When he wraps it in a shower curtain and goes to bury it in the fresh foundation of a new gazebo (summerhouse...