Word: uppers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...delighted with the lively profile of Rudolf Bing. With the exception of one or two semantic twisters, I think it is a first-rate job-definitely ept, ane and ert. Sending Mr. Bing a bottle of Moselle as a preliminary shipboard softener-upper was a touch of genius. Champagne would have been all right for some people, but for Bing a bit gauche and outre. In the words of Talleyrand (almost): He is intolerable, but that is his only fault...
...space walk during the flight of Gemini 12 this fall, NASA now plans to acclimatize him more gradually to open space. Before he leaves Gemini's cabin entirely, Aldrin will poke his head through the open hatch, stand up on his seat and shoot pictures with only the upper half of his body outside the spacecraft. NASA officials point out that Gordon and Gemini 9's Eugene Cernan, both of whom had trouble with EVA, took their space walks before their open-hatch photography sessions. But Gemini 10 Astronaut Mike Collins, who warmed up by taking photographs through...
...reputation burgeoning, Handy has now become the subject of the jazz aficionados' favorite diversion: endless treatises delving into his musical roots. The pedants find meaningful traces of Bartok and Shostakovich, of rhythm and blues and bebop, of African rhythms and Indian ragas, of Saxophonist Benny Carter (in the upper register) and of Clarinetist George Baquet (in the trills). John Handy hears differently. "More and more," says he, "I sound like John Handy...
...well on the draft test and that this will probably protect them. According to draft officials, an undergraduate who is going to school full-time, making normal progress towards a degree and has not interrupted his education is almost sure to get a deferment provided he is in the upper half of his class or has done well on the test...
...graduate student is likely to be deferred if he goes to graduate school the year after he leaves college and if he is in the upper quarter of the male section of his graduating college class and scored an 80 on the exam. These conditions not withstanding, the 15-20 per cent of the students at the Law School who did not go there directly after college have not been bothered by the draft. At the Business School, where 60 per cent of the students "interrupted" their education (many, however, to fulfill their service obligation), there has also been virtually...