Word: swipes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speechwriter for Dwight D. Eisenhower, shifted to Rockefeller in 1960. But in such work, he says, he missed the pleasure of speaking his own mind. He has already written America the Vincible, a turgid criticism of Eisenhower's foreign policy; now he is prepared to take another public swipe at his old boss with a new book, Eisenhower: A Political Memoir, to be published next spring. In an excerpt in the current issue of Look, Ike emerges as a testy and shallow ex-general, contemptuous of Adlai Stevenson ("that monkey"), dubious of Richard Nixon ("I just haven...
...training since the first week in May, he has trimmed his 6-ft. 1-in. frame down to 220 Ibs. of bulging muscle, and he is one man who knows his own strength. Liston literally has knocked the stuffing out of a 45-lb. punching bag with one swipe of his right fist. He laughs disdainfully while Trainer Reddish slams a 12-lb. medicine ball into his stomach. In The Pines' steam room one day, Liston picked up a 50-lb. weight with his right hand, casually tossed it up over his head and caught it with his left...
Recent issues of Christianity Today have included an impressive sample of the kind of alert religious reporting and comment that makes the magazine indispensable-if often irritating-reading in manses and seminaries across the U.S. One editorial took a rough swipe at clerical complacency, and then lambasted a recent Vatican statement that Protestants could achieve church unity by returning to the Catholic fold. The issue now going to press runs a long survey of religion in non-Communist Europe based on reports of some of its 37 foreign correspondents. The general consensus: materialist, religiously indifferent Europe is ripe for evangelical...
...idea of our progress," said Cecil Harmsworth King, "I would like to digress." Then, before the annual meeting of stockholders in London last week, the proprietor of the world's largest publishing house, the Mirror Group (London Daily Mirror, Sunday Pictorial, plus 220 other periodicals), took a telling swipe at freedom of the press-British style. Said King...
...slacks look like the back end of hacks"), assaulting high fashion ("Their models look as if they had just been blown out of a wind tunnel"), hitting back at the birds ("There ought to be a law that makes pigeon feeding a crime"), or taking a good-natured swipe at the opposite gender ("Man is indeed the weaker sex, worse luck"), Inez Robb interprets the world she roams with an inexhaustible vivacity that can make her competitors' columns read like the telephone book...