Word: yore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew it. "The way things are," North Carolina Democrat Sam Ervin said wryly, "I don't think I could even get a denunciation of the Crucifixion in the bill." When Georgia's Richard Brevard Russell, field general for the segregationists in a dozen civil rights battles of yore, returned to the Senate chamber from a long illness the day before the cloture motion came to a vote, he needed no more than a glance to see that the cause was hopeless. "If there is anything I could do," he said, "I would do it. But I assume...
What's best about it is probably Lee Marvin. Dressed in snaky black, with a silver schnozz tied on where his nose used to be before "it was bit off in a fight," Marvin soberly parodies several hundred western badmen of yore, then surpasses himself as the dime-novel hero, Kid Shellen. A "good" killer, the Kid arrives in town unable to live up or even stand up to his legend. His eyes are bloodshot from poring over whisky labels. On ceremonial occasions he wears a corset. When he is primed with rotgut, his fast draw...
Howard, Mantle, and Roger Maris are all consistent hitters, but the Yankees' batting is still not what it was in the days of yore. Outside of this big three, the Yankees' leading hitter last year was Bobby Richardson, who batted an anemic...
Whether she did it to catch a prince, like Rapunzel, or to avoid a taxing situation, like Godiva, the girl who took down her hair in days of yore never thought twice about the trouble involved. But then, why should she? She had nothing to undo but a braid or a ribbon and presto, crowning glorysville! It is only the modern maid who spends the better part of her days putting up her hair and is not about to take it down until she's good and ready...
...been bossed by Kendall, a onetime fountain-syrup salesman. Last spring he introduced Diet Pepsi, which has since captured more than one-quarter of the low-calorie-cola market. He also bought a West Virginia firm that makes Mountain Dew, sugar-rich citrus soda whose slogan is "It tickles yore innards." Mountain Dew sales are up 150% since September...