Word: take-off
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...senses that infuriating people, especially square people is something T really enjoys. He predicted angry calls about the Spellman take-off, and seemed disappointed when none came...
...ever think that the Earl of Snowdon would take him so literally. There was intrepid Tony, 37, hanging onto a 15-ft. by 12-ft. yellow kite and soaring 70 ft. over the surface of Bedfont Lake in Middlesex. Already an expert water skier, Lord Snowdon managed the tricky take-off on his first try, stayed aloft for ten gusty minutes. There was no word on when Princess Margaret would attempt a flyin, but Tony had their five-year-old son on water skis the next day, recommended the added kicks of kiting "to anyone who likes to live...
...provided by Arthur Costa e Silva and by Latin America's new awareness that it must act now-and together-to solve its problems. But optimism of the sort that has drenched Brazil in the past like blinding sunshine must wait on surer signs that, having reached the take-off point, the giant of the south will really take...
Johnson might have pointed out the specific advantages of regionalism--economies of scale and coordination of sector growth--in providing underdeveloped countries with transportation, communications, and other requirements for economic take-off. The President should also have realized that practical regionalism involves considerable political sacrifices to development criteria on the part of both Congress and recipient countries. Congress might have to help a somewhat unfriendly country if it were located in the middle of an optimum region for economic growth. And once regions were established, legislators could not halt aid to a specific country without hurting growth in several other...
Joan Baez thinks so. In fact, she's so sure Al Capp's cartoon character is a take-off on her that she has demanded an apology and the immediate execution of the comic strip abomination. "Either out of ignorance or malice," she wailed, "he has made being for peace equal to being for Communism, the Viet Cong and narcotics." Just as captiously, the cartoonist growled that Joanie wasn't Joan. "She should remember that protest singers don't own protest. When she protests about others' rights to protest, she is killing the whole racket...