Word: splits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant California sun, but pleased as well. As reporters and photographers gathered round to congratulate Johnson on his birthday, Nixon turned to one and said admiriigly: "He doesn't look that old, does he?" Then they were off in a motorcade of golf carts. As the party split, with Nixon and Johnson heading for the executive-office complex and the rest turning off to the presidential villa, Nixon called to Luci: "You can use the pool if you want. And my surfboard. I never use that...
...library indicates that Freud kept up a correspondence with the university's president, Psychologist G. Stanley Hall. The letters abound with expressions of gratitude and courtesy. But one with a sharper tone replied to Hall's suggestion that Prize Disciple Carl Jung's bitter split with Freud was a classic case of adolescent rebellion. "If the real facts were more familiar to you," Freud wrote, "you would very likely not have thought that there was again a case where a father did not let his sons develop, but you would have seen that the sons wished...
...century headquarters building and right at the edge of San Francisco's financial district-is most convenient to the company's operations. But many San Franciscans, including city planners and just plain residents, strongly oppose the erection of the building, and the city has been split into pro-and anti-needlers...
Allen's comic sense operates on the principle of disparity. His heroes are flies intent on building spiderwebs. In Take the Money and Run, he portrays Virgil Starkwell, a man who would get flustered crossing the street, and imbues him with the delusion that he can master the split-second timing, minute detail and cool bravado needed to become a successful bank robber. Result: a criminal so consistently inept that he fails even to make the Ten Most Wanted list...
...recently chosen to mark the game's 100th anniversary, the man named history's foremost manager was John Joseph McGraw. His selection was virtually incontestable. More than any other man McGraw transformed baseball from a rustic game of stark individual power into a scrambling contest of split-second team prowess...