Word: stilettoed
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...issue. He sneaks off to spend the night with a "sordid woman"-he is shocked to discover that she doesn't have twin beds. He makes a pass at a cute trick who works for him-he is startled to get stabbed through the instep by her stiletto heel...
...could stop fighting. He surrendered. He had no anxiety. He gave. He floated and gave, like a cloud breathing out light." Somehow, after that, Hedges can both love and loathe. He loathes his ex-wife and publicly informs her of the fact. He loves the girl with the stiletto heel and promptly takes her to wife. Happy ending? In his concluding sentence, Author Newby murmurs drily: "They lived more or less happily for quite a long time after...
...what everyone wanted to hear was Rusk's reaction to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s serialized, stiletto-sharp at tack on Rusk as a "Buddhalike," ineffective Secretary of State whom President Kennedy had decided to fire after the 1964 elections (TIME, July 30). To those who hoped for a viperous answer in kind, Rusk's reply was disappointing. All he displayed was a quiet dignity that Schlesinger undoubtedly would have called Buddhalike...
Spector, who is 5 ft. 7 in. and weighs 131 Ibs., personifies the bizarre, make-believe world that he dominates. "I've always wanted to stay in the background," he insists, primping his scraggly, Prince Valiant locks. But his attire could hardly be called a camouflage. Standard costume: stiletto-pointed boots with three-inch Cuban heels, tight pants, cloth cap, Davy Crockett pullover. He ignores the rude hoots that greet his progress down the street, confides that "in case of real trouble I could literally kill a guy. I've studied karate for years...
...done what I have urged." Romney and Rockefeller both praised Scranton's move, but neither promised to deliver his delegates. In London, Nixon said he thought Scranton was doing the right thing, but he remained neutral. But when he got back to New York, Nixon flashed his stiletto, said of Scranton: "If a man receives a phone call and changes his mind, he isn't a very strong man. He's got to make his own decisions and not appear to be a puppet maneuvered by someone else...