Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night's work on Patterson, Liston collected $300,000 of a $1,600,000 gate; with Clay, the gate might go to $8,000,000. It was a casting director's dream: Liston, the ex-con, scowling, surly, somnolent; Clay, the will-o'-the-wisp, gaudy, gay, garrulous, boastful, poetic. This time there would be emotion enough for everybody. People hate Liston and he hates them right back. People hiss at Clay and he laughs in their faces...
Communist leaders from the West quickly joined the chorus. But Chou En-lai was not totally friendless in the Palace of Congresses. North Viet Nam's wisp-bearded Ho Chih Minh and North Korea's chunky Kim II Sung refused to join Khrushchev in condemning Red China by denouncing Albania...
...perfumed ether. On the floor below, three dance bands, thousands of voices, brigades of clinking bottles and the hypnotic hop of feet endlessly sambaing built a solid wall of sound. In the midst of the jammed dancers, 24-year-old Gilda Lopes, clad in a Queen of Sheba wisp of gauze and sequins, shimmied deliriously on a table top, drinking in masculine ogles as a parched field drinks the spring rain. She lost not a beat as she explained her costume: "It's like the one Lollobrigida wore in the movie, except that Gina had a lot more pearls...
Spaceman Wernher von Braun called the misfire "a little mishap" bravely predicted that the U.S. would still manage to orbit a manned capsule by the end of 1961. But Project Mercury's latest failure, third in a row, just about evaporated the last faint wisp of hope that the U.S. might put a man into space before Russia does...
That once there was a fleeting wisp of glory...