Word: shortest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...canvass for the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam, I got the shortest haircut I have had since high school and my sister took her longest skirt out of mothballs. These were not exactly sacrifices for the cause, but they were concessions, and we half-expected some concessions in return from the voters of Cambridge. We wanted them to listen...
...Junior from Needham, Mass., is the shortest back in the league at 5 feet 6 inches, but he weighs in at a chunky 185. He is now tied for third in Ivy League rushing with 135 yards in two games...
...heir to a Johns-Manville asbestos fortune, much of which he spent on his many wives; of a heart attack; in Chappaqua, N.Y. "I'm the marrying kind," said the dapper Tommy, and he certainly proved the point, running through eleven wives in 13 marriages (longest: eleven years; shortest: 7 hours 45 minutes) in a 56-year mating game. All that sport cost him something like $2,000,000 in alimony and lawyers' fees, but Tommy was ever hopeful. Said he after a four-day engagement to wife No. 5: "We're glad we waited...
...assets on the Hill have proved to be liabilities in the White House, and Johnson's lingering image as the crafty manipulator has done him immense harm. Many Americans seem convinced, as one observer of the presidency has written, that Johnson is a man who believes that "the shortest distance be tween two points is through a tunnel...
Their objective is political, says the specialist. It is to inflict "the maximum number of American casualties within the shortest time period. They are banking on the shock value to merge with uninformed opinion in the U.S. to put pressure on the Johnson Administration to get out of Viet Nam." In purely military terms, of course, Hanoi's objective is to pin down the greatest possible number of American troops in the defensive position most favorable to the North Vietnamese, thus markedly reducing U.S. pressure on the Communist forces operating in the rest of I Corps...