Word: wind-up
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...step on a dud line so that it explodes, but he has to work so hard to be playful that it kills the fun. Apart from Hackett, only Luba Lisa comes out of this Coney Island carnage with talent and personality arrestingly intact. Moving like a sexy-hexy wind-up doll, with the voice of a Jewish Chatty Cathy and the body of Salome, she gives the impression of being cheerfully in debt to the whole male race as she waits for the next man to garnishee her itsy-bitsy, teeny-weeny, pom-pom green intime bikini...
...first Abomb. Along with these came another flurry of fast-breaking news, including the new Nobel prizewinners and the unveiling of the U.S.'s controversial TFX fighter-bomber. And, as if that were not enough, newspapers had to cope with such predictable front-page stuff as the wind-up of the World Series, the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, and the British elections...
Vellucci, well-known for such proposals as the conversion of Harvard Yard into the "John Harvard Memorial Parking Lot," said that his rally would be merely a wind-up of his campaign for the Cambridge city council elections to be held Tuesday. This will be an opportunity, he said, for his Harvard supporters to make themselves heard...
Volpe shared the platform at the Republican wind-up rally with ex-governor Christian A. Herter, ex-United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Republican nominees for state-wide office...
...team has already mapped a tentative schedule for a proposed Christmas trip to England and France. It lists two games In London, one at Oxford, one at Kent, and a wind-up contest against the Racing Club of Paris...