Word: punching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nothing will happen." In a memorable outburst, Franklin Roosevelt complained that it was tough enough getting action from the Treasury and State departments, but that "the Na-a-vy" beat the two of them hands down. "To change anything in the Na-a-vy," grumbled Roosevelt, "is like punching a feather bed. You punch it with your right and you punch it with your left until you are finally exhausted, and then you find the damn bed just as it was before you started punching...
Present at Texas' Carswell Air Force Base for the flight were all sorts of brass, including Air Force Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert. All professed themselves pleased as punch. But there were outside complaints that the F-111 was costing much more than originally planned, that it was too heavy for aircraft carrier use, and that it was full of bugs-as proved by the flap failure...
Then, throwing a soulful glance at visiting Soviet Troubleshooter Aleksandr Shelepin, Nasser coyly dropped his punch line: "We shall not sell our independence for 30, 40 or even 50 million pounds." The price was indubitably high, but Shelepin must have got the message...
...form of the play is an act of vengeance. The white boy, Karolis (Jaime Sanchez), has written what can only be construed as a homosexual love letter to a Negro boy named Foots (Hampton Clanton). Foots's eight Negro buddies brutally punch, kick and stomp on Karolis. Directed with nightmarish brilliance by Leo Garen, the play moves like a street-gang rumble. Even mock games with rolls of toilet paper seem to crackle with terroristic menace. The Negroes spew the vilest of obscenities at Karolis and each other. On any absolute scale, the dialogue is air pollution...
...alternative to all this, the U.S. continued its almost fanatical backing-with West Germany giving more restrained support-of the proposed multilateral force of 25 surface ships armed with Polaris missiles and manned by mixed crews from NATO nations. Where the French nuclear force currently swings a total punch of three megatons, the MLF would carry 200. Though the U.S. would retain ultimate control of the MLF's nuclear trigger, participating nations would have more pull on it than under the French scheme. The French last week reiterated one of their many objections to MLF: it would start...