Word: riotous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surfing in California. Spacecraft Gemini 8 and Gemini 9 establish an historic orbital link-up. Astronaut Roger Overendhout, clad in red, white, and blue underwear, is able to crawl from one capsule to another. Playing a tube he had carefully smuggled aboard in his space suit, he performs a riotous impromptu strip-tease for the laughing crew of Gemini 8. Astronaut Kirwood Derby Jr., using a small NBC-TV camera he was carefully paid $10,000 to smuggle aboard in his spacesuit, records the whole scene for the live television audiences...
...Riotous demonstrations are the cancer of this society; they are driving this country to destruction," warned President Chung Hee Park last week in a nationwide broadcast. Unless the riots stopped, said Park, the nation's schools would be shut down "semipermanently...
This year Rush cut two new records: Tom Rush and Blues, Songs, and Ballads. While Tom Rush is no doubt the better of the two, Blues, Songs and Ballads has personality. It captures some of Rush's best performances: a riotous rendition of the old jazz tune "Sister Kate" acquired from Eric von Schmidt and a version of "Baby Please Don't Go" that I prefer to Mose Allison's. Excepting "Rag Mama" and "Drop Down Mama," which have inordinately good lyrics much of the remainder is pedestrian...
...COUPLE. Art Carney and Wal ter Matthau are riotous roommates in Neil Simon's hilarious study of two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives-until they tried living with each other...
...braceros worked in California last year), bringing cries from California growers for his ouster. Despite the farm ers' complaints, Wirtz's office said, fewer than 10,000 foreign nationals have been requested under the general immigration law. Some of the crop spoilage was blamed on "riotous overplanting...