Word: ahem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest revelation. Incestuous feelings are natural and healthy, but the fear of incest is the root of all evil. He discovers very TIME, NOVEMBER 5, 1965 little that is not evil in this tour through the libidinal jungle, which he ponderously describes through the eyes of a hero named - ahem - Philip Wylie. Commissioned to write the biography of an aging financier-philanthropist, Hero Wylie discovers that the old tycoon is guilty of multifarious fornications, industrial sharp practices, attempted treason, and coveting his own son's young wife. The girl ha.s a father complex...
...Moscow swept platoon after platoon of insistent commissars-French, Italian, Austrian, Danish, Indian, Mongolian-all clamoring for explanations. Why had Khrushchev been ousted? How could the new regime justify its coup d'état? What were Moscow's new policies-particularly vis-à-vis Red China? And, ahem! was Nikita all right? "In fact," said one old Moscow hand, "the problem is that this crowd came to power without a program and is now having to improvise like mad." First they tried out their answers on Wladyslaw Gomulka, Khrushchev's crusty crony whose approval Brezhnev and Kosygin...
...retired great, Ted Williams, fishes as passionately as he played. He once landed a 1,235-lb. black marlin off Peru. And what does he do now? He lives in Florida, poking around the Keys after bonefish. "The toughest saltwater fish there is," says he, adding with a slight ahem that he has caught more than 1,000 in his lifetime...
...other branches of Government organizing these sidebar corporations and using taxpayers' money to circumvent the civil service and pay large scientists and others? Isn't this sort of incongruous with the call for volunteers for your Peace Corps?" Understandably, Kennedy's answer amounted to a courteous ahem...