Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...viciousness, the vocabulary he frequently misuses and the logic he invariably abuses, I doubt that Buckley has contributed one original idea to public discussion or performed one act of public service. Why should a man of accomplishment debate a nonentity? Or, in Buckley's idiom, why use a saber to chop hamburger...
...employees, is now fighting to stay alive in its home market. London is buzzing with rumors that Gillette is negotiating a takeover of Wilkinson. The rumors are denied by both companies, but they have not given any lift to the 193-year-old saber manufacturer, whose shares have slid from $7.56 when they were publicly issued in April 1964 to $3.50 last week...
...many seasons in a row before it becomes barren," he said at the end. "I don't think Paar's half acre is completely worn out, but it has gotten a little dry lately." Yet "some day I may re-enter the lists -with a new saber neither broken nor bent-and plow up the field all over again. Come on, Leica, come on. We're going home...
...museum, designed by William Pereira, is the largest built since Washington, D.C.'s National Gallery was completed in 1941, and just getting it into place requires a miracle of engineering. It is situated on the squishy soil of the La Brea Tar Pits, where saber-toothed tigers and Jack Benny's jokes once prowled. In fact, getting the O.K. to excavate required inspection by a team of archaeologists. They found old bones, but fortunately these were plain chicken. "If they had been dinosaur," says Museum Director Richard Brown, "we'd have taken four years longer...
...Sabers & Scandals. Traveling by plane, car, canoe, muleback and on foot, he visited every single one of Peru's 144 provinces, something no other politician could say. He promised lower food prices, farm machines, low-interest loans "for the welfare of the common man." His enemies tried to shout him down. One morning in 1957, he fought a clanging saber duel atop a Lima airport building with a Congressman who had called him a "demagogue and conscious liar" (both were slightly nicked). A year later, his wife left him for another man. and the scandal rocked Lima. Bela...