Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Osaka, the party drove to an ancient Buddhist temple at Nara, where priests offered Kennedy incense sticks, indicated a nearby bronze kettle where the sticks are traditionally burned by visitors. Kennedy motioned to accompanying Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer. "What are the implications if I do this?" Replied the ambassador: "It just shows respect. Go ahead." "You're sure it won't look as if I'm worshiping Buddha?" asked Roman Catholic Kennedy. Whispered Reischauer: "No, It's O.K." Kennedy picked up an incense stick still muttering: "If I get kicked...
...rescue one missionary who reportedly had survived. Lawson's two Swedish pilots landed their Beaver plane at Kongolo's torn-up airfield, and Lawson threw himself out the door to avoid fire from snipers. "I was very lonely and very scared," he said. "I picked up my stick and strolled...
...Carrot & Stick. The steelmakers, too, are feeling conciliatory. Remembering 1959, they do not want to be blamed again for triggering a recession that would hurt their industry more than most. They are also feeling the pressure applied by President Kennedy, who is determined that 1962's economic comeback will not be halted by a steel strike...
Heretofore a local attraction in Detroit and Los Angeles, Soupy reached the big time last week: ABC put him on its network schedule in prime evening time. Soupy flung around countless pies on opening night, mostly directed at a dear old lady hobbling on a stick. But to make sure the show was boffo in the ratings race, Sinatra himself turned up. Knowing what was coming, Frankie had prudently dispensed with his toupee, leaving him barely recognizable to a large segment of his fans. Gallantly, on cue-schlopp-he took a pie in the face. Last week, following the leader...
...Barabbas with a cast of 8,000, many of whom are lions. And now he is preparing for the motion picture that will make Ben-Hur seem like a minor travelogue, the ultimate, untoppable, millennial religious epic -a $30 million, twelve-hour adaptation of The Bible. De Laurentiis will stick with the original title...