Word: swirl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eternity of damnation, her eyeballs and teeth are dripping pink in what seems to be a hellish combination of conjunctivitis and trench mouth. Mercifully mute throughout, she merely moves in and out of camera range, breasting the waves of candle smoke, dry-ice vapor and vulgarity that swirl through the sets...
...however, the Communist victory may be classed as Pyrrhic. The allied command reported nearly 15,000 of the attackers killed. Even if the total is only half that?and some observers think that that may be the case when all the combat reports filed in the swirl of battle are cross-checked?it would still represent a huge bloodletting of the enemy's forces in South Viet Nam. Even the lower estimates leave no doubt about who won the actual battles: U.S. dead numbered 367 and South Vietnamese military dead about...
...matter that the rumors usually have the reliability quotient of the market-rallying report two weeks ago that the Pueblo was about to be released by North Korea. That word apparently came from Red China by way of Paris. Last week the market fell and then rebounded in a swirl of contradictory reports that President Johnson was (or was not) planning to call for wartime controls on the economy, that profits were (or were not) heading...
...beat steady, the tune up on top for easy listening. The words, too, push back the calendar a few years: unabashed love epics spiced with just a pinch of social awareness. "Oh, how I tried, really and sincerely I tried," quavers Robin in one song, as background strings swirl up in Pucciniesque supplication...
Vice President Hubert Humphrey, 56, went riding on Christmas Day, taking Wife Muriel and two of their grand-daughters-Jill, 5, and Vicki Solomonson, 7-out for a swirl on a snowmobile he had rented for the holidays. It was billed as a nonpolitical trip, but anyone could see that his vehicle was-what else?-a Johnson...