Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fear and confusion. Let us hope Mr. Nixon learns the lesson. He must take positive steps to build a healthy monetary system the first few weeks he is in office. If he resorts to more self-defeating gimmicks, as the present Administration has, we shall likely have the worst recession since...
...which the victim is strung up head down, then has the soles of his feet beaten. "If you refuse to confess or if you pass out," said Meletis, "they set you down with numbed feet on a cement floor on which cold water has been poured." But the worst torture, by his account, is electric shock treatment applied to various parts of the body, including the genitals. After four days of such torture, Meletis said, he broke down and told his interrogators what they wanted to hear...
...arguments farfetched. For example, he was a leading member of the team of lawyers who last summer asked a federal court to prevent Columbia University from disciplining its own campus demonstrators. U.S. District Judge Marvin Frankel described the team's arguments as "at best useless and at worst deeply pernicious nonsense in courts...
...pinkies extended, trading salon witticisms and plugging mountain lions from close range. Classic examples of the unspeakable pursuing the uneatable, the hunters blithely pooh-pooh Connery's warning that the Injuns are on a scalptingling expedition. Miffed, Shalako sulks off to wait for the redskins to do their worst to the unwary tourists...
...Boston Strangler--Believe, your worst suspicions. At the MUSIC HALL, Tremont St. near Stuart...