Word: albatross
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...Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, clearly Dick Nixon's idea of a political albatross, stubbornly refused to go away. In Salt Lake City, Benson-once a Rockefeller partisan-said he was strongly for Nixon as "the candidate who will be best for America." Talk of Nixon repudiating him, said Benson, was "crazy...
...Barbara Rush) that "martinis don't mix with s-e-x." "What's s-e-x?" inquires the youth. "Is it like Santa Claus?" Daddy, at any rate, is full of the Old Nick. Symbols clank as Douglas and Novak meet at a roadside inn called the Albatross. They drink martinis, and this time, after some moments of hesitation presumably to keep the film's moral tone above C-level, the cocktails mix just fine with...
Wearing an Albatross. Financial men view Minnesota-born Dick Krafve with some reservations because of the Edsel fiasco, but he wears his albatross cheerfully. Says he of the Edsel: "It was a matter of timing. If we had gotten it out sooner it would have been tremendous." Both he and Adams are convinced that Raytheon can be reorganized at great savings, are on the lookout for profitable companies Raytheon can buy into...
...genocidal plan for making Midway Island safe for Homo Americanus volitans makes one suspect that the Navy is not up on its Ancient Mariner. If it were, the Navy would know that the penalty for killing an albatross is disaster...
American whalemen knew the albatross as the "goney" bird long before the U.S. Navy had any interest in the Pacific. There is a whaleman's song entitled The Wings of a Goney, from the logbook of the whaling bark Ocean Rover on a voyage made in 1859 that starts...