Word: spar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other automakers have tended to spar while under assault about the safety of their cars. But last week Henry Ford II came out swinging. Inspecting a new plant at Woodhaven, near Detroit, he went off the cuff from a prepared speech, accused industry critics of "harassment...
...spoiled poet who has become a high-level Manhattan publicist, returns to Pennsylvania for a weekend on his mother's farm. With him are his second wife Peggy and Richard, her 11-year-old son. While Joey mows the unkempt fields, the two women guardedly, and then unguardedly, spar over him, a prize that neither of them seems to want as much as they want simply to contest for its possession. The tug of war is academic anyway...
...radio station in 1944, William O'Neil paid an extra $75,000 for a struggling California rocket-propulsion laboratory. That has grown into Aerojet-General, a subsidiary that turns out Polaris, Minuteman and Titan rocket motors and a cigar-shaped, 354-ft. ocea-nographical research vessel called the SPAR, which bobs in the seas in a vertical position. Aerojet also produces more than half of General's sales and almost 40% of its earnings...
...almost more interesting than the how of it. Nobody much believes in love any more; Broadway has not seen an old-fashioned nonmusical love story in years. This is intimately linked to the image of the modern woman, who does not seem real, at least onstage, unless she can spar, jaw-to-jaw and eyeball-to-eyeball, with her man. As Ibsen would have been the first to recognize, Nora competes at home nowadays, and the doll's house is a boxing ring. It is this laughter of inner recognition that greets Pussycat. All truly modern love stories...
Hello Sonny. All of which helped hypo the gate and make Sonny Listen mad. One after another, would-be spar-mates showed up at the Listen camp, figuring to pick up an easy $250 a week waltzing with the challenger. One after another, Listen packed them off to the hospital-one with badly bruised ribs, another with a cut that took eight stitches to close. "No more of this ain't gonna happen to me," muttered Alonzo Johnson, the seventh to quit. The hero of the hour was a pug named "Big Train" Lincoln, who managed to absorb...