Word: flushed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cassius contented himself with giving the Cat a dancing lesson and a nosebleed. Then, when the bell rang for Round 2, Trainer Dundee ordered: "Go after him. Use a chopping right." Clay's first chopping right dropped Williams for a count of two; his second caught the Cat flush on the mouth so hard that his teeth sliced right through his rubber mouthpiece and gashed his lower lip. Williams went down for a six count, got up, and staggered into another Clay right that knocked him flat on his back, out cold. The referee was at the count...
...James Tate, the Yale Younger Poet of the year, is a sharp, radiant poet with access to striking language; Stephen Sandy's skill and precision need no accolades. Howard Nemerov, Elizabeth Jackson Barker, Thomas Redshaw and the magazine's co-editor Timothy Mayo contribute to a very solid straight flush of poets, with no jokers...
...Reagan is a right-wing extremist and, if elected, would "disrupt radically the quality of life in California." Some rabid Brown backers have retouched photographs to show Reagan with a Hitler-like forelock and moustache; some far-out Reagan supporters display bumper stickers proclaiming: IF IT'S BROWN, FLUSH IT. Brown insists that the main issue is Reagan's glaring inexperience in government. Reagan retorts that the main issue is the persistent bumbling of Brown...
Close up, Reagan's face is a map of wrinkles; yet at a distance on a rostrum he seems young enough to be giving his all once more for good old Notre Dame. His cheeks flush, the light blue eyes sparkle (through untinted contact lenses that correct his lifelong myopia), the lanky (6 ft. 1 in.) figure seems to tower over his audience...
...shopping complex a loudspeaker blared Red-tinged news reports alternately in English, French, German and Hungarian ("Seven American planes were shot down over the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam today"). To make the campers feel at home, the Hungarians set up a variety of services and shops ranging from flush toilets to a beauty parlor to a pinball hall, whose name translated from Hungarian came out as "automatic joys room...