Word: whiplashed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...head injuries could have been saved. Lasting or delayed disability could be similarly reduced, reported Pakistani-born Dr. Ayub K. Ommaya, of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness at Bethesda, Md. Detection, however, is doubly difficult in the peculiar and treacherous kind of injury known as "whiplash"-the result of the sudden forward-and-backward snapping of the head that is common in rear-end auto accidents...
...President's wife thrives on the whiplash excitement around her husband. Says Lindy Boggs: "Bird would be only half alive if she divorced herself from politics." There is not a chance that she will. Last week, when a reporter asked the President if Lady Bird would be campaigning for him this fall, Lyndon replied with relish: "She is-and will be." And she has been-and will be-able and invaluable. In 1960 she traveled 35,000 miles in 71 days for Lyndon, mostly in the South. Says Bobby Kennedy chivalrously: "Lady Bird carried Texas...
Sometimes a Whiplash. Gordon is a key figure in planning the economic program being drawn up for 1965 and beyond. He helped draw up, with Walter Heller, the revised stand-by tax-cutting power the President will probably ask Congress to approve as an anti-cyclical weapon, is working on a new scheme to funnel excess federal revenues back to the states whenever a surplus is generated. His strong feeling that federal spending is too cumbersome to effect short-range control of the economy will probably sway Johnson away from the stand-by public works and other spending devices that...
Playing Rafael's mother with fiery whiplash energy, Dancer Carmen Amaya proudly declares: "When your father met me, he danced until his feet bled. They were bandaged for 15 days." Ever alert to such cues, Los Tarantos throbs whenever plot and subtitles give way to the stirring beat of darting hands and clicking heels. When an old man caracoles through a whirlwind of autumn leaves. Or when Rafael's doomed friend (Antonio Gades) dances among Barcelona's street sprinklers in the silver-blue wash of a winter's night, casting a rich theatrical spell that makes...
...Violinist David Oistralkh, 55, in a Leningrad hospital after a heart attack; Authoress Dorothy Parker, 70, in her Manhattan home, recuperating from a fractured shoulder; Columnist Walter Winchell, 67, treated and released in Los Angeles after suffering a whiplash neck injury when his car was hit from behind...