Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...stable, the cost of living is slowing down, and the economy is so healthy that the government could pass up a U.S. loan offer of $15 million. To make them more impressive, the accomplishments are the work of what would seem to be two political cats in a sack: fiery Benito Nardone, 53, a former traveling salesman who leads Uruguay's noisily reform-minded ruralistas, and wily Eduardo Victor Haedo, 59, a witty ex-teacher who bosses the rightist National (Blanco) Party. Two years ago when they joined forces to defeat the Colorado Party that had ruled Uruguay...
...what plainly just keeps The Unsinkable Molly Brown afloat is an unquenchable Tammy Grimes. Starting off, in potato-sack finery, half tomboy and half troll, she roars and soars ahead with her magically rusty vocal cords, her magically uncombed look, her meltable rock-candy hardness, now executing a slow, sneakered, ragamuffin saraband, now after a Denver fiasco ripping into an exuberant barefoot dance, now smashing a chair over a stranger's head, now reacting in Paris to her first taste of snails: "With that sauce, you could eat erasers." Thanks to her, Molly is dripping but undrowned...
...nearly as brash as himself-frenetic Producer David Susskind (see SHOW BUSINESS). Even Khrushchev's grisly jokes went sour. Asked by newsmen if he had changed his mind on disarmament, Khrushchev produced a penknife, said "I have this," and wondered aloud if the knife "could puncture such a sack" as the U.S.'s stout ambassador to the U.N., James J. Wadsworth...
There is, for instance, this recollection of a Russian officer who helped sack an aoul, or mountain fortress, in 1832: "By the light of the burning thatch we saw a man standing in the doorway of the saklia [hut]. This man, who was very tall and powerfully built, stood quite still, as if giving us time to take aim. Then, suddenly, with the spring of a wild beast, he leapt clean over the heads of the very line of soldiers about to fire on him. and landing behind them, whirling his sword in his left hand, he cut down three...
...played by Lew Anderson, was originated by Bob Keeshan, who is the enduring star of CBS's Captain Kangaroo). And with them all went a memorable list of supporting figures: Mr. Bluster, the puppet heavy (the children in the audience always booed and hissed); Dilly-Dally, the sad-sack tot; Flubadub, the curious crossbreed with a duck's head, spaniel's ears, giraffe's neck, dachshund's body, seal's flippers, pig's tail and the cat's whiskers...