Word: tics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Getting the Point. The situation soon became so touchy that Jack Kennedy and his White House aides developed a nervous tic of annoyance whenever they were bothered by Bowles. Finally the President summoned his Under Secretary of State to a White House lunch. Figuring that the former adman would quickly get the point, Kennedy gently suggested Bowles might like to become ambassador to Chile...
Money for Blood. After the attack on Heydrich. Eichmann himself began to get jumpy. Bodyguards surrounded him wherever he went. He drank heavily and developed a tic in his right eye. Some of his staff, sickened by their jobs, asked to be sent to the Russian front...
...comment and adroit in technique. The work of a 27-year-old New Yorker named William Kronick, Bowl was filmed at 16 frames a second and is shown at 24, with an arresting result: the picture moves across the screen, as the old silent comedies did, with a tic-quick impetuous energy and innocence that delightfully heighten...
...battled for his viewpoint in the councils of the Administration. During the 1957-58 recession, for example, he recruited Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell and Interior Secretary Fred Seaton in his losing struggle to persuade Ike that, with the 1958 congressional elections looming, the Administration should take more dras tic antirecession measures, even at the cost of further unbalancing the budget. On some issues, notably his disagreement with Agriculture Secretary Benson's farm policies and his concern over budgetary decisions and defense expenditures, Nixon decided to let the public in on his dissatisfaction by leaks to newsmen, which have...
Plastic artificial roses that actually smell went on sale at Macy's this week. The man who put the fragrance in the flowers is Jack Barry, onetime master of ceremonies and co-owner of Twenty One and Tic Tac Dough...