Word: throwaway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall not seek and I will not^accept the nomination of my party. . . ." Thus on nationwide television this week, almost as a throwaway line, in one of the most painful speeches that he has ever delivered to the American people, did the 36th President of the U.S. declare his intention to bow out of the ] presidential race. Lyndon Johnson's decision to retire from office, coming as a surprise climax to a surprise speech on Vietnam, gave the President's newly-stated conditions for ending the war the kind of impact that his own intended departure from...
...controversy into one of the several abrasive quips he hurled at Johnson during the week. He mentioned some of the experts he had proposed for the commission, then added that "President Johnson, in his inimitable style, wanted to appoint General Westmoreland, John Wayne and Martha Raye." Another Kennedy throwaway: he knows he has a chance to win-George Hamilton asked for his daughter's telephone number...
...century elegance, topped off with such hats as dreams are made of, she struts and swaggers new pizazz into the undistinguished material that Carol Channing, Betty Grable, Martha Raye and Ginger Rogers have done so well by. The Bailey way with a wink or a wiggle or a throwaway line is pure pleasure, and the rich, round raunchy Bailey voice can wrap up and deliver anything singable...
...year. George Wasserberger, 38, one of four U.S. entrepreneurs who took over 122-year-old Mark Cross in 1962, attributes its success to uncompromising quality. "We have never sacrificed lasting fashion for fad," he says. His philosophy is expressed in a recent Mark Cross ad: "It's a throwaway society, man. Break it. Chuck it. Replace it. Do you believe that? Mark Cross...
Blood Through Bs. Unlike the Russian inventions, in which staples must be loaded one by one with tweezers, U.S. Surgical Corp.'s more advanced instruments use throwaway, presterilized cartridges. The carefully engineered instruments are lighter and remarkably versatile. They can fire as many as four different sizes of sutures in as many different patterns. The stapler itself looks like a stainless steel monkey wrench with a pistol grip. Setting its minuscule metal staples in suture lines that are doubled for safety, it can clamp together as much as 3½ inches of tissue with a single squeeze...