Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reid's most crucial moment came in an earlier test of strength with military brass jealous of his influence. To get the upper hand, he recently called in the army and navy chiefs of staff one at a time to inform them of a new system of rotating the three military staff command positions every 18 months. Getting wind of Reid's maneuver, officers of the powerful air force grew restless, and coup rumors crackled through the capital. Immediately, Reid called in the air force chief of staff-either accept the rotation plan, he put it bluntly...
...scrutable. What he's thinking shows through." The Washington Star's James Berryman, who has harpooned Presidents for 31 years, considers Johnson "the answer to a cartoonist's prayer-with those great, heavy eyebrows, the tremendous darkness around his eyes, that long eagle beak, the short upper lip that makes him look like he doesn't have his uppers in, and the largest ears of anybody outside of a donkey I've ever seen...
Starting the second half, attackman Dick Ames dodged several defenders to score unassisted. Gunnoe increased the Harvard lead to three goals when he cluded a midfielder and fired a hard shot into the upper corner of the goal at 2:20. After M.I.T. made its fifth goal Wood scored his third of the day after a pass from Leary...
Building on this plot, Herr Kirst offers a satirical view of life in the upper echelons of the Wehrmacht as he follows the efforts of von Seydlitz-Gabler's wife to marry their daughter, Ulrike, to Tanz. Ulrike is in love with Lance Corporal Hartmann, who is being kept under cover after inadvertently surviving a skirmish that the German press, for propaganda purposes, reported as an atrocious slaughter. And Hartmann is a young naif (of the sort that seems obligatory in a German anti-war novel) who serves, in his pacifistic innocence, as an effective exponent of the author...
...people reach the upper limits of accumulated wealth, fewer of them tend to own homes and autos. Mostly older, they favor rented luxury apartments and hired automobiles...