Word: snorter
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...want a rip-snorter in the presidency. The place needs to be galvanized, and we've had enough theologians," he said...
...back at the beach, later, that I headed a mad scurry of military personnel and civilian war correspondents to get his "short-snorter" signature. Modestly, and with a smile, he gave it most willingly. Only a few of us got it, though, before his aides brushed us aside and got him back on board. I could place no greater value on any man's autograph than that of General MacArthur...
...coach Carl Crowell may hold Straub out of the mile and put him in the two-mile, with a chance to defend his 1963 Heps championship and avenge a December defeat at the hands of the Crimson's Walt Hewlett. If so, that one also will be a rip-snorter. Hewlett outlasted Princeton ace Kelly Somers and Yale's Jeff Sidney on the second half of his double win last week, so he should be alone with Straub and possibly Cornell's Jim Byard at the finish today if Straub chooses this distance...
...Magnificent Seven (United Artists) suggests that, after many a disappointment with Hollywood and television westerns, U.S. reviewers and distributors are so saddle-sore and range-blind that they cannot tell a ring-tailed snorter from a bucket-foot mule. Greeted by a flurry of inattention from the critics, this western has been hastily remaindered into the neighborhood circuits in the hope that it will soon get profitably lost in the Christmas rush. The loss will be bearable: Seven is not a great picture-not nearly as good as the Japanese Magnificent Seven (TIME, Dec. 10, 1956), the brilliant episode...
Busy Host. Next morning seven U.S. veterans of World War II, in Moscow for a reunion with Russian troops they had met when the two armies came together at the Elbe River, were ushered into the Kremlin for more of Khrushchev's camaraderie. He autographed their short-snorter bank notes, received with thanks a map showing the point where Soviet and American troops first met before V-E day. When Alexander Lieb of Sherman Oaks, Calif, gave Khrushchev a ballpoint pen as a souvenir, Nikita, laughing, handed over a more expensive fountain pen in return...