Word: trumps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow and the Hermitage in Leningrad. The fortunes of these unrivaled hoards have fluctuated with politics. Stalin had them banished to the cellars as decadent Western formalism. After 1954, the collections were slowly reinstated, and now the Soviet Union has begun to use them as a cautiously played trump in the diplomatic game of cultural exchange...
...title and place, or the family, still intent on straight-jacketing Jack, will have its way. Jack's psychiatrist engineers his patient's conversion in a perfectly improbable scene (complete with an AC-DC electric God and none less than King Kong) and with this extravagant cinematic trump, the movie turns into a deadly serious affair...
...friend Arnold Q Arboretum. Good luck to the school-super. Alflorence Cheatham Doeting and Dolphin, let all Grignards rest Spare your students from fructocide on the next text. Now Bowersock. Whitlock, Kagan, Kiely. Keep all your committee meetings smiley. John Bethel and Bulletin Staff, make Good News Try to trump up some vict're for dear Perla Hewes. Drink up, Levines, there's truth in wine. Hey, Master Peretz, you're doing fine. McGovern. Shriver, drown your woes. We all know that's the way it goes. Dick Nix n Spiro, save your glee For the office party at I.T.T...
...reputation as a dirty player. but he is good, as is All-Ivy fullback Bill Murray, with second team All-Ivy Federico Rojas, like Huerta junior college All-American, forward Chris Agoliati, and fullback Matt Mauro, Cornell with challenge Penn and Harvard for the title. The Crimson hold a trump card against each, however, playing both teams at home...
...just this kind of protest which the Republicans avoided and, when necessary, counteracted like a malignant tumor. Their trump card was the 3000 Young Voters for the President (YVPs), who were invited to Miami Beach at their own expense to provide a roving cheering section for the Republican cause. These "representative youths" dressed right, smiled a lot, concocted homemade campaign placards, spoke to the media whenever possible, and practiced cuing in Convention Hall. A mimeographed directive instructed the YVPs to cheer whenever youth was mentioned, whenever victory in November was mentioned, whenever victory in November was mentioned, whenever the President...