Word: worsted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys, who range in age from eleven to 15 with a kiss on the cheek), a loyal friend, a delightful conversationalist. He is the kind of fellow who might take a milkshake instead of a martini, never smokes a cigarette, and always squeezes the toothpaste from the bottom. The worst anybody can say about him is that maybe he isn't quite sloppy enough. Even his smile is nice, a big, shiny perpetual grin. But on a boat, with an opponent to devastate, the smile has a saber-toothed quality about it. "In match racing," says Mosbacher, "the idea...
Exports continued to increase in June, up 22% compared with 1966, and well in line with the average monthly step-ups during the first half of 1967. During the worst rioting, the Hong Kong dollar dropped slightly, from 5.74 to the U.S. dollar to 6, but it has recovered since. Chinese businessmen have not left the colony, though some 30,000 Hong Kong Chinese applied for Taiwan visas, and thousands more plan to move to Canada or Singapore should the Reds move to take over...
...studded with little messages to critics and longhairs that Something Is Going On: the word now usually appears in parentheses; passages of various sorts are indented; there are interruptions for long Dos Passos-like lists that, unlike her enumerations of the artifacts of camp, don't add up. Worst of all, there are dreams-long, logical un-dreamlike dreams that exhaust the read er even faster than they do Diddy. Yet for all its flights, most of the writing is conventional dialogue and ordinary continuity, with a few set-piece scenes that feebly attempt Nabokovian...
Travis complains that most people simply do not realize what attracts rats. Rich-smelling fried food left in an empty room is bait. So are dishes in the sink. So is the feeding of dogs, cats, squirrels and birds in the backyard. Among the worst offenders are construction workmen who throw away luncheon leftovers. "There hasn't been a building put up in Washington in 15 years that the rats didn't move into before the people," says Travis. "You have the exterminator working on the first floor by the time they're laying concrete...
Within a few days it became painfully apparent to Arab leaders that they couldn't hide the fact of their military defeat from their people forever. One of the worst things that can happen to a leader in the Arab nations is to lose face with the people. Some excuse had to be found for the defeat of countries many times the size of Israel; the truth would have meant political suicide. And so in an telephone conversation between Nasser and King Hussein which was intercepted by Israeli Intelligence, Nasser suggested that the Arab nations tell their people that they...