Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...goddess-and has that one-eyed thing in our living room become our God?" Moved by the fist-pounding sermon, 450 people-a leonine blackbeard, a Negro youth, a golden blonde, hand-holding lovers-came forward to make "decisions for Christ" almost precisely in the numbers foretold by the slide rules of Billy's knowledgeable aides...
...threat of direct nuclear clash between the U.S. and Russia has all but vanished for the foreseeable future. The Cuban missile crisis of 1962 taught Moscow how easy it is to slide from cold war gamesmanship toward white-hot holocaust, and the knowledge was profoundly sobering. The possibility of a sneak nuclear attack, while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets...
...designed rough pyramids made of granite paving stones, over which kids clamber, shrieking as they go. Last week children were lining up to crawl into the stone igloo; once inside, they scrambled up a ladder through a hole in the top and, with a whoop, scooted down a slide kerplunk into a sand...
...indirectly have a stake in the stock market. Vexed by the vagaries of Viet Nam, jittery about symptoms of inflation and talk of higher taxes to come, the stock market has dropped 119 points since it scaled an alltime peak of 995.15 on Feb. 9.* Two weeks ago, the slide gained speed with a surprise announcement from Detroit that General Motors was cutting back production. The market lost 26 points just after the news came...
...with her husband John Forsythe (who will one day be Governor of the state), their tiny son, and a vengeful mother-in-law, played by the late Constance Bennett. After one wifely indiscretion (Ricardo Montalban), Lana is banished by Connie from haute couture country, and begins the long, long slide into ready-to-wear. In Europe, she picks up a fur-trimmed coat and a concert pianist. Her hair loses its luster, her complexion fades to the color of driftwood, and ultimately she lands in Mexico wearing a filthy flowered wrapper and carousing with Burgess Meredith, a blackmailer. After...