Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resembled a cigar-store Indian silhouette. Now, behind his back, subordinates call him Dick Tracy because of his fondness for technological gadgetry (such as Kansas City's computerized information system and helicopter patrol, which he instituted) and his square-jawed resemblance to the comic-strip...
...Kerwin's pulse went up as high as 150 beats a minute. "Take it easy," advised Space Veteran Conrad,* whose own heartbeat rose only to 110. While Conrad held the rope to the cutters, Kerwin tried to direct the pole so that the blades hooked around the aluminum strip. "I can't stabilize myself," he complained as he failed again and again. "I just can't do it." Finally, just as the spacecraft was about to make another pass into darkness-which would have forced the astronauts to halt their work because the illumination from the hatch...
...Harvard Crimson issue of Monday, June 4, the headline on Page One pertaining to the "Doonesbury" cartoon reads, "Globe, Pose Cancel 'Doonesbury' Strip...
...strip was a statement by a character, not by me," he said. "It was meant to be a satiric representation of the euphoria of the anti-establishment types about the Watergate case. I wasn't using a character to make a statement--I was making a statement about a character...
Howard Simons, managing editor of the Post, said yesterday that the Post received "a hell of a lot of phone calls" Tuesday from people inquiring why the strip had not run. Simons stressed that the callers were not protesting the Post's reason for dropping Doonesbury, but only against the fact that it did not appear...