Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dictator is so lowly and so puny that he does not dare to pull the tail feathers of the American Eagle," said the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "Certainly the risks are very great in South Viet Nam. It may be expensive to win the war, but the risks in winning it are far less than those in losing it." The Dallas Morning News acknowledged that "it is a terrible situation, and, as the surrender salesmen say, it is one that we can escape simply by folding up. Our respite, however, would be short...
...states tried to depict themes representative of the Great Society. Texas trundled by proudly with a model of the LBJ Ranch, including a plastic Pedernales River, and a beagle with a tail that wagged. Minnesota's banner heralded the state as the SOURCE OF MAN POWER AND BRAINPOWER, while Hubert's old college band cut loose with The Minnesota Rouser. Education and recreation were the principal themes, Southern states, by and large, had the prettiest girls, and each state had some touch that was indubitably...
First came Florence, the boutiques and the gags. Glans covered one pair of pants with another (toreador on the bottom, pantaloons on top), while Ava-golf finished off a long knit dinner dress with two balloons (slit to accommodate feet), left it to Pucci to put fans at the tail ends of a linen evening suit. There was Fabiani's transparent black chiffon dress, dubbed (by Fabiani) "the sexiest in Italy," Micia's shift made out of black poker chips, Trico's black knit, orange-bordered at-home outfit (complete with a ring to be worn...
Chaffee, Harvard's anchor man, caught up with and passed the tail skier for Dartmouth's "B" team to give the Crimson sixth place among the colleges entered. His time of 39 minutes and 35 seconds was the third best performance of the day. Olympian Larry Damon finished first, one minute and five seconds ahead of Chaffee...
Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a yellow car driven by a bearded Negro, and speed away. Police eventually arrested Janet and Malcolm Collins, a married couple who not only fitted the witness's physical description of the fugitive man and woman but also owned a yellow Lincoln. The evidence, though strong, was circumstantial. Was it enough to prove the Collinses guilty beyond a reasonable doubt...