Word: yo-yo
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...emerge wearing high, tan moccasins, skintight, sky-blue pants and flowing fuchsia shirt. Scattered about the living room are effects that mark the mystery of the man -gilt-bound tomes of Balzac and Schiller next to a pile of toys that he amuses himself with: a soccer game, a Yo-Yo, a gun that shoots pingpong balls. And everywhere there are model train locomotives, which he collects in honor of his origin. He used his earnings of about $2,800 per performance to buy an $80,000 walled-in villa tucked away in the mountains above Monte Carlo...
...Yo-Yo." But lest anyone mistake image-polishing for softness on Democrats, Goldwater rolled up his oratorical sleeves and walloped away with a vengeance. In Charlotte, N.C., he likened Lyndon Johnson to a dictator of despotic power, and in Odessa, Texas, to Neville Chamberlain. Over and over he linked Johnson and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara as a team that seemed devoted to the ruination of the country...
...twisting and turning, pulling on the control lines as he tries to maneuver the chute through the wind to the bull's-eye. In 1962, using standard chutes, there were times when the jumpers looked like they were hanging on the end of a Yo-Yo...
...Yo-Yo Effect. Schriever was so confident of Minuteman's feasibility that he saved a full year by ordering all three stages and all systems of a Minuteman fired as a unit on the first test-an unheard-of procedure in the normal piece-by-piece sequence of missile development. Reports an official Air Force history: "The results were sensational. All stages worked perfectly, the guidance system performed accurately, and the instrumented re-entry vehicle made a very near miss on a target some 4,000 miles downrange." Minuteman, in Schriever's view, has tipped...
...closest he came to winning a ma jor championship last year was a play off loss to aging Julius Boros in the U.S. Open, and he had not won a tournament of any sort in six months. "I've been playing like a Yo-Yo," he complained. "It's my concentration; I can't seem to keep my mind on the game." Or maybe it was nerves: on doctor's orders, Palmer had quit smoking, gained 8 Ibs., and felt like climbing the walls. Whatever it was, it was downright embarrassing. Here...