Word: tailed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Revere's House in North Boston, the guide inside was telling us about the coattail chair at one end of a table. It had three posts coming up above the seat, two in front and one in back. There were no obstructions between them so man in tails could put one tail out to each side...
...announcement, the White House intended-as one aide put it -to administer a "kick in the tail" to negotiators at the fourth round of SALT talks in Vienna. The diplomats, who are to recess shortly, were only too happy to get the boot; when they reconvene in Helsinki this summer, they will at last have something solid to discuss. One serious obstacle to an arms-limitation treaty had been overcome. In past talks, the U.S. had insisted upon putting a ceiling on both offensive and defensive nuclear weapons; it was especially fearful of the huge, 25-megaton Soviet S59 intercontinental...
...highly painted professional ladies who obviously wanted more than his autograph. Only with some difficulty did the world traveler extricate himself from their importunities, but he emerged with wit unblunted. "It was a case," he mused to a friend on the way back to his hotel, "of the tail dogging...
...WORK required of HVD members is rarely exciting and often monotonous, but next year's officers expressed general satisfaction with the organization's policy. "You always wonder whether it's worth working your tail off whereas in most cases you'll only cut a guy down from a six-month suspended sentence to a three-month suspended sentence," says Katz. "It's surprising how we always tell them we're students, not attorneys, but maybe it's the name of Harvard and they think we're good, or they've gotten inadequate representation in the past. I've never known...
Myers replied that he had; in fact, he said, "I served at the tail end of World War II in France." But an aide said today that Myers didn't see "too much action" there. The vets, who made a special trip back to his office to see him today, only laughed quietly...