Word: slugs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...case, Katangese soldiers at a golf course on the outskirts of Elisabethville took the occasion to shoot down an unarmed U.N. helicopter moving overhead. They stoned the six surviving crewmen, pummeled them with rifle butts; a 23-year-old Sikh lieutenant, who lay helpless with a machine gun slug in the abdomen, died unattended in three hours. Indian Brigadier Reginald Noronha, commander of U.N. troops in Katanga's capital, was furious. "This is the last time," he said. "Next time there are going to be fireworks...
...jittery, prayerful and sometimes ghoulish spectators who watched earlier Mercury flights. Newsmen on the spot neither applauded nor cheered, as before, as the rocket lifted easily into a clear blue sky. Even after Sigma 7 went into orbit, many Americans preferred to watch the Giants and the Dodgers slug it out in their final play-off game...
More sophisticated (and more expensive) testers smile pityingly at such questions, pointing out that no booze hound, no matter how shaky he feels when he fills out the test, is going to admit to his future boss that he takes a slug when he wakes up each morning. The sophisticated testers are more "psychological," although many of them are not psychologists. They rely on supposedly cheatproof tests, asking their subjects to complete sly sentences ("My greatest fear . . ." "What pains me . . ."), flashing Rorschach inkblots, or as in the sample above, asking the testee to draw figures. Author Gross includes...
Says Lodge: "You've got to stand toe to toe with them and slug it out in terms of schedule, of hours, of energy, and of just plain determination." Dynastic Theme. Lodge intends to hit hard at Kennedy's lack of experience and the dynasty theme ("I'm not part of any dynasty. I don't have a brother in the White House"). Said he in his convention speech: "I am here because I am angered by the callous manner in which a single family has grasped for personal power; because I am amazed that their...
...There is surely a difference between being a fanatic for freedom and being a fanatic for slavery." He likens the two-year imprisonment of Jefferson Davis to Stalin's terrorism, but Stalin was rarely so gentle. When he claims that war is no more justified than one sea slug is in swal lowing another, his elegant prose turns a bit lumpish, like the slugs. He is at his best when he plunges into the minds of his writers and shares their passions; rarely have Grant, Cable or Holmes been so richly portrayed. In understanding them, Wilson seems...