Word: spins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...force in Tuscaloosa: a team of U.S. marshals and Justice Department officials, headed by Deputy Attorney General Nicholas de Belleville Katzenbach, a big, balding man who is even tougher than he talks. At Fort Benning, Ga., 400 Army troops, specially trained for riot duty, sat in helicopters, ready to spin away to Tuscaloosa if they were needed...
...exclusive use." On a different interpretation of the record, William O. Douglas delivered a dissent so violent that it visibly jolted other members of the court. Black's opinion, said Douglas, "will, I think, be marked as the baldest attempt by judges in modern times to spin their own philosophy into the fabric of the law." By giving the U.S. Secretary of the Interior power to adjudicate Arizona-California water issues, said Douglas, the court majority was granting "the federal bureaucracy" something "it has never had but always wanted." The attack was all the more startling because Douglas, himself...
pishkash is what makes the Iranian economy spin, and the Shah wishes it didn't. (See THE WORLD...
...private mail and reads that too." Like a Love Affair. His wit was as well known as his eccentricity. Once when talking to a pretty girl pilot he explained a tail spin as "something like a love affair; you don't notice how you get into it, and it is very hard to get out of." He liked to quote the definition of a Hungarian as "a man who goes into a revolving door behind you and comes out ahead." When asked why so many top scientists are Hungarian, he explained: "We are all from Mars originally. We decided...
...Miss It! Miss It!" That brilliant steal should have taken the heart out of Los Angeles. But no. The teams traded baskets, and then, with 43 sec. left, the Lakers' Dick Barnett flipped a spectacular reverse-spin shot into the basket and was fouled in the process. Barnett sank the free throw, and Boston's lead was only a point. The next basket would tell the story. Cousy floated a jump shot toward the basket. The ball banged the rim, caromed crazily into a tangle of flailing arms. A roar went up. Laker Rookie Gene Wiley...