Word: sendoff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia will be very bad this season, but Lafayette will be worse. A good sendoff for new Lion coach Frank Navarro and his passing combination of Marty Domres and Bill Wazevich...
...Saturday afternoon. If they all looked as scrubby as the bunch from Harvard in the picture, I would venture that the whole demonstration has hurt, rather than helped, their cause. Their altruistic motives are admirable, but I distrust their ulterior ones. The more objectionable members of the Lampoon sendoff should be chastised, but more because it is unkind to call an overweight child "fatty" because he overeats to compensate for emotional problems. Fifteen thousand able-bodied students putting in an eight-hour day could raise a minimum of $120,000--a sum which, turned to the proper channels, could inform...
Pajama Party. Trained at Xuanmai, a base near Hanoi, the infiltrators are given a big sendoff party, sometimes attended by North Viet Nam's military boss (and victor of Dienbienphu), General Vo Nguyen Giap. They are trucked to the port of Vinh for staging, thence southwest to the border area, where they turn in all personal effects, including letters, which could identify them. The infiltrators exchange their equipment for guerrilla gear (such as rubber sandals, mosquito netting) and doff uniforms for the black-pajama garb of the Viet Cong...
...boss and friend, Dwight Eisenhower. There, before hundreds of newsmen and a battery of television cameras, Ike throws an arm around Lodge, extols his virtues and, without naming Goldwater, declares that what the Republican Party needs is a candidate after his own ideal of "progressive Republicanism." Despite that sendoff, Lodge still insists that he is not seeking the nomination. Rather, he says, he is in the U.S. because "I am Ambassador to Viet Nam, here to try to alert the American people to the situation in the Far East, to its well-known dangers, and also to the chances...
...Enfield also called on Dinizulu, paramount chief of the Zulus, and Dinizulu came through with 4,000 of his finest, plus a faultless selection of his most nubile maidens for a bare-breasted scene in which the Zulu warriors on the eve of battle are given the sort of sendoff that might well cause 4,000 men to lose to 130. The Zulus are cocky, freewheeling, and flamboyantly natural actors. They seem content with their basic $17 a month. They charge in sweating, shining waves with rawhide shields and high-borne spears. They all but shout to one another...