Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tall Saturn 5 rocket was put together, and listen to him insist that no picture had ever prepared him for the experience of looking up at the towering vastness, the esthetic curves of the work platforms, the cathedral-like sense of man's puniness. No camera angle or word comparison can convey the feeling of standing like a blade of grass alongside the impersonal white complexity of the lofty moon rocket itself...
Canceled Cruise. Don Juan's followers would heartily agree with that. Word of the impending Franco announcement reached the Pretender just as he was about to leave on a Mediterranean vacation cruise. It was canceled immediately. "This operation is being carried out without taking me into account, or the free will of the Spanish people," Don Juan said in a statement. "I am therefore a spectator to the decisions which will be taken on this matter, and I hold no responsibility in this restoration." There was no mention of abdication. Said one of his court officials: "Don Juan will...
...Goaded by the press corps in Mexico City and supremely self-confident, Spitz had unwisely spoken of winning five or even six gold medals in the freestyle, butterfly, medley and relay events. "I tried not to believe all I was reading about myself, but I wound up believing every word of it," he says. "After the Olympics, I was more than disappointed. I was downright depressed...
...mean to the name of the game. Sooner or later, rumors would start circulating that gamblers were getting too close to the shaggy-haired superstar who led his team to a stunning 16-7 upset over the formidable Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl last January. Rightly or wrongly, word would quickly be passed around that games were being fixed...
...fighting to keep the writers' union committed to the liberalization program of 1968. Kundera's novel of Czech Stalinism, The Joke, has the directness of a fist in the face; it has been made into a film shown at Cannes this year. Ptakovina is a made-up word, literally "Birdtrick," meaning stupidity...