Word: wee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wee Bit Slippery." Handsome, hazel-eyed Jimmy Clark is the perfect pro driver. At 5 ft. 7¾ in. and 150 Ibs., he is even the perfect size: small enough to squeeze into the 2-ft.-wide cockpit of a 1,000-lb. Formula I car, big enough to see over its bonnet. He has the hands and arms of a jockey; his eyesight is phenomenal. His reflexes are so fast that he could probably pluck a fly out of midair. Clark's business adviser, John Stephenson, remembers a midwinter ride in a sedan with Jim two years...
...just before 1 a.m., any 1 a.m. from Monday through Saturday, and the din from the next-door Bowladrome has died away when Larry Glick climbs to the second-floor studio of Boston's WMEX ("the ever-new Wee-Mex, Home of Modern Radio"), eases himself into his chair, its torn plastic cushion oozing sponge rubber. Around him are ashtrays half-filled with cigarettes left by the daytime rock 'n' roll D.J.s. Staring at him is the control panel held together with electrical tape. On the scarred horseshoe table sits a six-line beige telephone, equipped with...
...been on the bottle for the last 2½ years; what am I going to do?" Another caller wants to wipe up the Viet Cong, the next discusses self-hypnotism, a third knocks himself out with his own imitation of Bobby Kennedy, and then along in the wee small hours comes a dope addict, who swears he would have committed suicide long ago if Larry had not made him feel that he "belonged to a family...
...other times during the first two days of the flight, the ground-to-space communications system was as chatty as a rural party line. At one point, Gus Grissom sent up to McDivitt the news that his son's Pee Wee League team, the Hawks, had defeated the Pelicans 3 to 2, and to White the fact that his son had got a hit in a Little League game that...
...reluctance to use troops in Selma," he said. "And as President, I am reluctant to use the strength of the defense establishment for such a thing. When you sit in this chair, you think three times before you say 'go.' " But he also disclosed that "in the wee hours of Tuesday morning, I signed all the necessary orders to have 700 troops get ready to move into Selma...