Word: stabs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goats & Monkeys. Harold Macmillan, for one, has not forgiven Haley for what he considered a stab in the back from within the Establishment. "The Profumo case," said Macmillan fatuously last week, "revealed the very high standard we try to maintain in British public life," because otherwise the affair would not have "caused so great a shock." The judge in the Ward case himself echoed the widespread view that Ward was an exception, and that "the even tenor of the British family goes on quietly." And the Bishop of Exeter maintained that the "Profumo scandal does not prove that the private...
...tiers of the 1,437 seats rising as steeply as bleachers, others sloping more conventionally, none more than 52 ft. from the playing stage. The seats come in twelve shades of color. Above hover the scattered grey clouds of the acoustical panels, some of which house the spots that stab the stage with light. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater, Midwestern home of a repertory company exclusively committed to the dramatic classics, is a token of light: the light of ever quickening U.S. cultural interest, and the light of a theater seeking its better self far from Broadway's glaringly...
...After a stab at prizefighting and working in the Packard foundry in Detroit, Cahn began his life as a musician among the founders of the American folk music movement--men like Pete Seeger and Millard Lampell. Since the late 1940's he has travelled extensively throughout the United States and to Spain and the Carribean, collecting, teaching, and performing. The Carribbean trip was on a grant from Wayne State University in Detroit, where he met his former wife, blues singer Barbara Dane...
...doctor or nurse who tries to spare a patient pain by giving an intramuscular injection as fast as possible is making a mistake. The results of a quick stab' with a hypodermic needle, says Ohio Pathologist Daniel J. Hanson, may be worse than the condition that the injection is supposed to cure...
Army hopes were further boosted at the opening of the second period, when right wing Bart Barry shot a hard 30-foot slap shot into the left-hand corner of the cage. Wood made a stab for it, but his glove only tipped the passing puck...