Word: towel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Against Towel-Throwing. Geyelin takes the position that Johnson, for all the seasoning he had had since 1932 in Washington, came to the presidency poorly prepared in the area of foreign policy. Shortly before, on an official jaunt through Southeast Asia, L.B.J. had shocked some Asians by letting out a rebel yell inside the Taj Mahal, and proclaiming that Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem was "the Winston Churchill of Asia." On that same trip, Johnson grasped the importance of U.S. support for Southeast Asia. While others in Washington were dallying, Johnson wrote a prophetic memo to President Kennedy...
...have been for some -- sprinter Aggrey A word, for example, during his senior year. And yet, Coach John Yovicsin says that none of his married players have stopped their college football or have been hampered in their style. Not one married junior varsity player has thrown in the towel either...
What would you do, goes one of the favorite guessing games in Viet Nam, if you were running the Viet Cong? Launch a wholesale terror campaign? Focus on winning the peasants? Toss in the towel and try Laos? Some answers came last week from an unexpected but authoritative source: the Communists themselves...
...Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers, The Leopard) installs Claudia Cardinale as resident tragedienne. In Visconti's modern variations on the Electra theme, Claudia struggles with a role that requires her, at times, to slip off the mantle of Greek tragedy and slip into something like a bath towel...
Three nights later, Ioannis bludgeoned his sleeping father with a hatchet, then stood by with his mother and sister while Vlachos suffocated to death in his own gore. ("Get a towel," Helena had warned beforehand. "There will be a lot of blood.") The family went to the police and told the whole story. Only then did they learn, to their astonishment, that their deed is punishable in West Germany by life imprisonment. "But I had to avenge my father's crime," protested Ioannis. "Why is it murder?" Even his sister Paschalina, 12, agreed: "What my brother did was right...