Word: circusing
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...feel we need to return to sanity, wind down the committee circus in Washington, get the Watergate affair into its proper perspective and off the TV tubes and front pages, and get on to working on the real problems that face our nation...
...Heston, dressed in black boots, white pants, scarlet coat and top hat, was kicking off the celebrity-filled first night of Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey in Los Angeles. Walter Matthau turned up as one of the clowns. "I was raised in an orphanage, and I went to the circus for the first time when I was twelve," Matthau recalled. "It was one of the happiest times of my childhood." Matthau's son Charlie, 10, was crowned King of the Circus. Then came the grand parade of elephants with spangled riders led off by Sonny and Cher and their...
...Bounty), and soon was diving in his Nieuport fighter to within 150 yds. of enemy planes before opening fire. When Hall was shot down and captured by the Germans, Rickenbacker took over Hall's group-and later the entire squadron-in the battle against the "Flying Circus" of "Red" Baron Manfred von Richthofen. By the end of the war, Rickenbacker had shot down 26 German planes and blimps, and had been awarded 56 decorations, including the Medal of Honor...
Billy was not the only one fascinated by the combination circus and Chautauqua lecture that last week was playing Zanesville, Ohio, a small (pop. 39,000) city on the edge of Appalachia. Many of his friends and classmates spent hours assembling and disassembling Rufus, a life-size plastic model of a human body with removable heart, lungs, kidneys and brain. Adults, meanwhile, strolled through displays devoted to family planning, sanitation and cancer detection, lined up at booths for tests to detect diabetes and lung disease and learned how to recognize incipient heart trouble...
...like going to the circus with the organ grinder...