Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says. "It's a kind of fake shot-we call them 'deeks' for decoys. Sometimes the goalie gives you an opening deliberately and then breaks your heart by blocking the shot. I pretend I'm taking the opening by flicking my stick over the top of the puck. The goalie moves, and then I either flick it between his legs or into the other side...
Missionaries for Peace. In his own coast-to-coast hopping, Kennedy was content to stick pretty much to his tried-and-true "get America moving" theme, but as Election Day neared he was chancing more and more quips. Only in a San Francisco speech did Kennedy broach a new program. This was a call for a volunteer "Peace Corps" of "talented men and women" who would serve abroad for three years as missionaries of good will for the U.S., as an alternative or supplement to peacetime selective service. "I am convinced," said he, "that the pool of people in this...
...Scotland for a weekend of shooting, Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan comfortably reposed knock-kneed on a shooting stick while awaiting the flushing of his quarry. Macmillan, looking the soul of a gentleman hunter, was a guest on the estate of Lord Home, Britain's Foreign Secretary. Thoroughly relaxed by his recreation, he dashed back to Britain's best-known shooting gallery, the House of Commons...
Allen Van Fossen, city editor of the Courier Post that serves Camden and the southern end of the state, and Ken Rhodes, political reporter for the Atlantic City Press, both agree that voters in their areas will stick pretty closely to former voting patterns. This, both men believe, will make the race very close...
...impish little devil, complete with horns, hoofs and pointed ears, descended from Pan. He circulates after dark, croaking, "Feathers or lead?" Either answer may be wrong, after which the Kaous mounts his victim like a horse for a breakneck ride across country, lashing him all the while with a stick...