Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Umbrella. Under the umbrella of antiCommunism, many of the ultra-rightists pursue their own special goals and grind their own axes, ranging from respectable conservative politics and economics through segregation, anti-fluoridation, isolationism, higher tariffs and income tax repeal. Federal income tax, says Dr. Carleton Campbell, a veteran ultra who organized the recent Greenwich meeting, is "one of the steps on the Communist chart to take over a country" by taxing the middle class into impotence. "Our goal is to prevent world government," says Merwin K. Hart, president of the National Economic Council. "And we don't like fluoridation...
Then he pumps up a tent, an umbrella, and a chair. He walks over to his car, pulls out a plug and psssssssss, the car deflates and shrinks until it is a speck on the sand. He pumps up a surfboard. He pumps up fish. He pumps up a girl. He doesn't like her looks, so he tries again. The new broad is smooth, supple, lissome -but there is something wrong. Two quick final puffs and her bikini brassiere is properly filled...
...Passing had been the only questionable factor in the Spartan attack. Against Michigan, Quarterback Smith showed that he is a poised passer as well as a brilliant ball handler, and Michigan State had speed to spare in sophomore Halfbacks Dewey Lincoln and Sherman Lewis. The Spartans' traditionally tenacious "umbrella" defense has not given up a single touchdown in three games. But cautious Coach Duffy Daugherty is not yet counting on a trip to the Rose Bowl, picks Iowa and Ohio State as top contenders. He may be right; undefeated Iowa was ranked No. 1 in almost every preseason poll...
...pastime as old as baseball itself: in organized baseball's first recorded game, in 1846, a New York Nine player named Davis was fined 6? for cussing the ump. Umpires have been beaned by flying pop bottles, chased out of ballparks by angry fans, assaulted by umbrella-wielding ladies, and showered with dirt and obscenity by players and managers...
...form and classic restraint. Whitman tapped a gusher, and no one reading the letters can doubt that he knew just what he was doing. To a correspondent he gleefully quoted a derisive squib from a critic, which said that he had arrived in New York "carrying the blue cotton umbrella of the future...