Word: spading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...spade to the head
Something more is needed, and as is usually the case, someone has found out what it is. The new lord of the garbage heap is Harold Robbins, a sometime Hollywood screenwriter whose long novel The Carpetbaggers ran into the millions of sales. Robbins writes with a spade, and of course he heaped Carpetbaggers with sex; a choice passage follows a call girl as she shaves a particularly hairy client with a straight razor and jasmine soap, dumps him into a jumbo bathtub, pours champagne over him as if he were a quart of fresh strawberries, then jumps in to help...
Died. Sidi Mohammed al-Amin, 81, last of the 19 Beys of Tunis, a spade-bearded figurehead given to gilt-encrusted uniforms and tinkering with his 2,000 grandfather clocks, who sat as France's puppet king from 1943 until 1957 when the new Tunisian republic ousted him-and his seven dwarf jesters-from his palace, thus ending a 252-year dynasty originally set up by the Turkish masters of the Ottoman Empire in 1705; of a heart attack; in Tunis...
Brain on Ice. If other diplomats shivered at the prospect of another shoe-thumping tantrum, the Assembly's new president, Pakistan's spade-bearded Sir Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, 69, showed last week that he was not about to take any guff. Told by the Russians that the General Committee, of which he is chairman, was "debasing its dignity," Zafrulla Khan retorted coolly: "The committee is the guardian of its own dignity and well able to take care...
...Senator from Arizona rose, and the chamber hushed to hear him. He was tall and greying, with an eagle's nose and a noble brow. He wore striped pants, a wing collar, a spade-tailed coat, and nose glasses leashed with yards of black, fluttering ribbon. He rolled out his words with infinite relish. "My faults," he cried, "are obvious. There can be no doubt I have my full share. I suffer from cacoëthes loquendi, a mania or itch for talking, from vanity and morbidity, and, as is obvious to everyone who knows me, an inborn...