Word: yost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moist lips" and "famous bosom." Her captors are Adam, a lust-crazed young writer (wearing, as writers will, "a worn gray cord jacket" and "tight blue knit slacks") and three accomplices, just "ordinary, average men" says Wallace, who naturally turn into "savages bent on satisfying their immediate appetites." Howard Yost, a beefy failed insurance salesman, and Leo Brunner, a mousy, feverish little accountant, are ordinary indeed, but Kyle Shiveley, a psychopathic My Lai veteran with "thin lips" and "cold slate-colored eyes," not to mention his "horrendous apparatus," is hardly the guy next door...
This profusely illustrated book offers an informative history of college football--the great teams, stars, plays, and coaches of its 103 years. The story focuses particularly on the strategists whose genius shaped the game. Among the all-time great coaches included here are Pop Warner, Hurry-Up Yost, Alonzo Stagg, Knute Rockne, and Woody Hayes, to name but a few. Here, too, are the players--men like Jim Thorpe, George Gipp, Red Grange, Tom Harmon, and Johnny Lujack. Kaye places the story in the context of its times, finding both heroes and victims, but concentrating always on how the masterminds...
...former U.N. ambassador Charles Yost announced that the U.S. would officially discourage investment by American business in Namibia, would cut off Export-Import Bank guarantees and would not protect investments made since 1966. But none of the measures the U.S. government has taken to prevent investment have been effective. Many corporations--including Phillips Petroleum, Continental Oil, U.S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel--have decided to invest despite official policy...
Some Western experts are concerned about the extent to which the U.N. has been downgraded. Former U.S. Ambassador Charles Yost wrote recently: "When the Assembly of 132 states adopts a resolution, that action represents, as nearly as any action can in a world of separate sovereign states, the predominant public opinion of the world. It may not have the force of law, but it often has the force of prophecy...
...snobs," said John Lennon. "We don't mind mixing with straights." With his wife Yoko Ono, the ex-Beatle was on hand for a party given by ex-U.N. Ambassador Charles W. Yost and ex-Saturday Review Publisher Norman Cousins for soon-to-be ex-U.N. Secretary-General U Thant. Borrowing Folk Singer Pete Seeger's guitar, Lennon stepped up to the mike with Yoko to give out with a peace song he had written. Excerpt: "Imagine no countries/ nothing to kill or die for/ no religion too./ Imagine all the people/ living for peace...