Word: tags
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reply, MIG jets soared up to play tag with the Western planes, just as they had done several times before in Berlin's war of nerves. Most kept their distance, but not all. One U.S. Air Force Globemaster pilot reported that a "stranger" zoomed to within 20 ft. of his wingtip, and a plane carrying Sir Christopher Steel, the British ambassador in Bonn, was buzzed by high-diving Communist pilots...
...before the Age of Jackie, was coaxed by a local boutique keeper into an unlikely flopper model. Especially designed for the midday desert sun, the cotton-eyelet chapeau is peddled to the carriage trade by the Palm Springs Racquet Club's "Glady's Shop" under the fetching tag of "chambermaid...
Fighting Irish. With Rockne as coach, Notre Dame became everybody's favorite underdog, then swiftly graduated from underdog ranking. Protestant Sportswriter Grantland Rice supplied the "Four Horse men"* tag; the "Seven Mules" manned the line; the "Fighting Irish," liberally assisted by Poles, Germans, Italians and an occasional Jew, were a national institution. From 1918 until he died (holding a rosary-he had become converted) in an airplane crash in 1931, Rockne's Notre Dame tackled the nation's best football teams, won 105 games, tied five, lost twelve...
Kennedy asked for a potpourri of programs and powers that would doubtless carry a high price tag. But at the same time he stressed that his real purpose was to increase opportunities for individual Americans rather than build up the state at their expense. "The state is the servant of the citizen and not its master," he said, and he pledged to "give the individual the opportunity to realize his own highest possibilities." He asked for job training for private, not Government jobs, for a spur, not to Government or public works but to private industry through tax credits...
Slips & Buttons. But the stores are consoled by the realization that these male romantics spend more money for Christmas than their wives. And together, the men and the women this year are spending money on anything that has a price tag...