Word: ricochet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Potshots are already beginning to ricochet off the calloused hide of City Manager Joseph DeGuglielmo in response to his latest plan for Cambridge--the consolidation of all the city's health and welfare facilities under one commissioner. His proposal, based on a report by Dr. Leona Baumgartner of Harvard Medical School, has been called everything from ineffectual to illegal...
...Ricochet Effect. The album, which includes her inimitable renditions of such teen standards as Downtown, has sold more than 250,000 copies in just three weeks, and the network TV shows are clamoring for her services. While Elva may not replace Elvis, her rocking-chair rock features a kind of slippin' and slidin' rhythm that is uniquely her own. Her tempos, to put it charitably, are free form; she has an uncanny knack for landing squarely between the beat, producing a new ricochet effect that, if nothing else, defies imitation. Beyond all that, her billowy soprano embraces...
...rest stop she vanishes. Next morning her body is found at the bottom of a ravine. The coincidence of two dead wives materializing at bus stops piques the interest of Inspector Robert Hossein, a sadist who practices police brutality with chilling Gallic esprit. Soon accusations and counteraccusations begin to ricochet off the walls. Having committed a fairly perfect crime at the outset, Frobe takes murderous pride in his achievement. Though Ronet is guilty only of intent to murder, he feels responsible for his wife's suicide...
...shadows begin to lengthen on her lawn and the commercials for virile laundry detergents (Boost!, Blast!, Fist!, Kick!, Sneer!, Guts!) ricochet around the homemaker's uncleaned living room, sloth can easily be accounted for. As for wrath, that depends. Will she one day wax wroth when she suddenly realizes how many sunlit hours have been spent before the tube? Will she rise and turn off the set? Or is she trapped forever in the flickering world of vicarious fun and games, scandal and sex? Tune out tomorrow...
...Fleishman, the moving force behind this summer's program, has suggested that Ivy League schools form a "consortium" with other universities, and work through established white institutions in the South to extend more staff fund to Negro colleges. He hopes that the energy and innovation may "rub off" or "ricochet" from North to South in a "cooperative educational exchange...