Word: till
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three swindlers swindle, till the chances, to swindle dwindle. One goes home crying, the second goes home singing, the third breaks his back trying to swindle other swindlers. You, too, will be swindled unless you arrive on time to see the comic short which starts the show. It is superbly funny...
Technically, he remains Ambassador to Yugoslavia till the end of the month, but when George Kennan, 59, strolled out of the State Department building last week, his on-again, off-again diplomatic career was off again. After goodbyes to such friends as McGeorge Bundy, Averell Harriman and President Kennedy, the noted Kremlinologist was off to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. Kennan is wavering between doing a book on Soviet foreign policy during the last years of the Stalin era or chucking contemporary punditry to "become a real historian and go way back into the 19th century...
...keeps on running till he's too trottin' tired to remember what makes Sammy run. Money, of course. Sammy (Anthony Newley) is chasing the ochre and he is chasing it hard, because if he can't catch up with 300 quid before sunset, some very unpleasant people are going to catch up with him-it seems his bookie is disinclined to spiv and let spiv...
...politicians, who nowadays count on racing revenues to provide some $110 million (about 4%) of the budget, and would like an even bigger take. But a tradition-honoring state law guarantees Saratoga 24 days of racing each year, and horsemen insist that they will never give them up. "Not till the springs dry up," says one. "We work for the state all year at Aqueduct. Saratoga...
...little girls jumped rope. Two fierce little boys drew their wooden swords and thwacked at each other with all their might till both little boys ran away. Two little girls wheeled out a big baby carriage and propped up a life-size doll. Then they dressed it up with all the grown-up ladies' clothes that Mama had stored away in the attic ages ago. One little boy skipped and jumped over to a big blackboard, chalked up those deathless words: MARY LOVES BILL...