Word: sackings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand to keep the case going well into March, bring court costs alone to around $280,000. Before long, the judges may well be ready to settle the when-is-sherry-sherry question on the expert and well-aged testimony of Falstaff, who defined "a good Sherris-sack" as a brew that "ascends me into the brain, dries me there all the foolish and dull and crudy vapours which environ it; makes it apprehensive, quick, forgetive...
Among casual observers of Eastern Europe's people's republics, East Germany retains a mistaken reputation for being an economic sad sack. Yet almost unnoticed, the country has risen to tenth place among the world's industrial powers-and the resurgence is due in no small part to the busy shipyards on East Germany's Baltic coast...
...included the fact that 1) Jackie Kennedy sent a letter expressing hope for freedom from nuclear terror to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev after the assassination, 2) John Kennedy was planning, after being elected to a second term, to sack Dean Rusk, appoint Defense Chief Robert S. McNamara the new Secretary of State, and move Robert Kennedy, at his own request, from his post as Attorney General to Assistant Secretary for Inter-American Affairs, 3) J.F.K. was taking French lessons so that he could negotiate directly with President Charles de Gaulle, 4) Kennedy's Bible, which was used to administer...
...central government, however, would still have a loud voice in local matters. Its national police would operate in villages and hamlets, and the government could sack any mayors or provincial chiefs who violate "the constitution, the laws or national policy...
Spirit Levels & Polaroid. "The first thing American clients say is 'Don't give me an English suit,' " says Louis Stanbury, partner of Kilgour, French & Stanbury. "I tell them if they want a sack suit they should go to Brooks Brothers." What Stanbury and his confreres have done is to marry English and American tailoring into a "mid-Atlantic cut." This is somewhat arrogantly described as "not quite what an Englishman would wear," but with more shape than the typical U.S. suit. Nor is shape the only compromise. Lacking central heating, Englishmen prefer fabrics weighing 15 ounces...