Word: stick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...19th century Queen of Thailand. The royal barge sank after a collision, but no one dared offer a helping hand. When occasionally it was necessary to execute a royal personage, he was put inside a red bag, to avoid touching him, and beaten to death with a sandalwood stick wrapped in silk. Ordinary sentence of death in modern Thailand is meted out by machine gun following sentences of the courts. But with Buddhist reverence for life and typical Thai indirection, the condemned is concealed behind a curtain on which is painted a target-and it is the target at which...
...flyin, put on a dazzling display of aerial stunts, precision landings, and simulated bombing with colored flour sacks. The gyrocopters came as plain or fancy as the owners could afford, but all were equipped with a pusher engine, one rudder, one rotor blade, and a single seat with steering stick. The gas tank holds six gallons, good for about an hour's flight. The craft can rise to an altitude of two miles, but most flyers preferred to stay under...
...gives short shrift to every postwar Allied leader save Harry Truman. His characterization of Truman, whom he credits with saving Western Europe from Communism through his strong stand in 1947-48 in Greece and Turkey, might well be applied to der Alte himself: "Truman was a personality apt to stick tenaciously to a decision once taken, and unlikely to be deflected from it by criticism." A later volume of Adenauer's memoirs will deal with Dwight Eisenhower...
While you're at it, stick around for Inside Daisy Clover, the most underrated picture in--well, in weeks: underrated not because it's so good, but because it has received such a phenomenal overkill from the Natalie Wood-haters, a sorry lot who probably haven't seen the picture anyway...
...when he lost to Dark Star by a head (the only defeat of his career), Kauai King was the post-time favorite-at odds of 2-1. Owned by Omaha businessman Mike Ford, who bought him as a yearling for $42,000, he was clearly a stick-out in an otherwise lackluster 15-horse field: he had earned $125,647, won seven out of twelve races, including three stakes, and he had finished out of the money only twice in his career. True, he had three strikes against...