Word: wadding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recorded for identification. During race meetings, the dogs are kenneled at the track, are constantly muzzled, fed nothing but a carefully supervised diet of vegetables, vitamins, horse meat and beef. On race days, they are confined to guarded cages to make sure that nobody throws them a "meatball"-a wad of hamburger laced with a stimulant or depressant-and they are given postrace drug tests, just like horses. The tests are so exacting, in fact, that one trainer almost lost his license because he fed his dogs chocolate syrup for extra energy. Caffeine from the syrup showed...
...salesman was described by one observer as "slightly pudgy, a fast talker with a New York accent, about 5 ft. 10 In. tall, with carefully-combed black hair." He was reported to have been carrying "a big wad" of cash and checks...
...world." Years & Efforts. The U.S. did not quite enter into that spirit. Said President Johnson: "This explosion has been fully taken into account in planning our own defense program and nuclear capability. Its military significance should not be overestimated." Most experts also believe that Peking shot its wad for a while, may not be ready to test an other one for more than two years...
...since he wrote our last cover story on the President (May 1). During a talk with Lady Bird at the White House, Writer Johnson asked how she felt about being the subject of a TIME cover story, and she admitted having "some trepidations" but philosophically quoted Bobby Burns: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us/ To see oursels as others see us!" Artist Boris Artzybasheff saw Lady Bird partly through her name and designed as a fitting background to her portrait a strong and stylish Artzybird...
After comparing orthodontic appliances, the two racket around Manhattan improvising absurd fantasies derived from Little Women and Fu Manchu. In Central Park they pretend to be "two beautiful white nurses" besieged by Chinese bandits. Merrie pokes a wad of bubble gum into Tippy's mouth. Poison. "When they try to ravish us, bite down," she orders. Then the nurses clamber up an escarpment and discover Sellers and Prentiss attempting a rendezvous on the rocks. From then on they bug Sellers, spoiling assignations and complicating the plot. They even scavenge his discarded cigarette butts and wrap them tenderly...