Word: ta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the Italian-Americans, Keating made inroads by playing on their resentment of the Justice Department's Valachi hearings, in which lurid ta'.es of hoodlums with Italian names were told to the American public. Keating also nailed down the Greek vote by condemning Turkey's actions in Cyprus. There are only 31,000 Turks in New York, but there are 77,000 Greeks...
Talons & Nooses. From February to May, when the Lorn Ta-Phao wind blows from the southwest, the sky above Bangkok resembles a vast aerial Disneyland. Long (up to 25 ft.), hinged kites, shaped like kraits and cobras, wriggle sinuously in the breeze. Peacock and butterfly kites flutter their iridescent wings; owls roll their eyes, and paper hawks wheel and dive. Thai boys get their first kites about the same age that U.S. youngsters get their first baseball gloves, and most of them dream about growing up to be another Poon Yuvaniyom, who is the closest thing to a Mickey Mantle...
...bobo, or bubblefish, an elusive silverside that dwells in the rapids and attacks a wet fly like something good to eat. There is the machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself spectacularly ta death when hooked. And there is the lavender-hued guapote, a tasty pan fish that weighs anywhere from 2 to 12 Ibs., can sever a sturdy" wire leader with one crunch of its needle-sharp teeth...
Television, which has long since replaced the crackling fire as the cozy thing to sit by of an evening, was once quite a blaze. Machine guns ratta-ta-tatted, switchblades sang, and grand mothers grunted as fists hit their mandibles. In the last couple of seasons, however, the pyrodynamics have agreeably relaxed. All that sputtered now wheezes cordially. None of this season's new series is objectionable. And a hand ful are quite good...
Gradually, however, DM is making companies more enlightened. Construc-ta washing machines, one of the earlier victims of a "less recommendable" decree, sagged from a 38% share of the German automatic washer market to 20% ; Constructa sued and lost but subsequently introduced new machines that won a higher rating. Mail-Order Magnate Joseph Neckermann rushed to Stuttgart to complain about DM's criticism of a spin drier sold by his firm; in DM's test lab Neckermann watched the machine fail again, and canceled his contract with the manufacturer. Says one businessman: "DM's greatest merit...