Word: whopper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...questions, every relevant fact in evidence is put to the witness at length, as if it were all some imaginary problem. In what may be the champion hypothetical question of all time, a California lawyer defending his handling of an estate asked another lawyer serving as an expert a whopper that ran to 83 pages of trial transcript and 14 more pages of defense objections...
Racked by Asthma. In person, according to one acquaintance. Robinson was "far from handsome in the classic sense. An enormous head, with goggle eyes and a whopper jaw, was balanced on a frail body by means of a neck of extreme tenuity; and stooping shoulders with a long slouching gait did not add anything of grace or beauty." Yet grace and beauty were Robinson's hallmarks both as a man and as an artist. He was racked by asthma throughout his 44 years, but he let no sense of pain enter his paintings...
...downright giveaway at worst. This feeling has encouraged Congress to make a tradition of wielding an ax at presidential foreign aid requests. Last week, President Kennedy asked Congress to appropriate $4.9 billion for foreign aid in fiscal 1963, the biggest aid request since Dwight Eisenhower's $5.1 billion whopper in 1953. Noting that it is "always open season" on foreign aid, Kennedy insisted that the sum was "vital to the interests of the U.S." and "cannot, I believe, be further reduced." But after such customary formalities, the President made a spirited challenge aimed at softening the blows...
...Detecto" from Manning Manufacturing Co. for junior G-men, with suggested tot teasers ("Do you like school?"), and little-white-lie ratings from "Could Be" to "Big Whopper." Price...