Word: anoint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Anointed. Thus it was that the hapless, hopeless Mets, who had kept the world in high humor for seven Pagliaccian years, triumphed in four succeeding contests to win the World Series. Their praises were trumpeted throughout the land. The people of New York went gloriously insane. They danced and sang and flooded the streets with paper; they tore the Shea Stadium turf to shreds and carried it home for souvenirs. King Lindsay the Shrewd, who after four precarious years of rule in his beleaguered city had come to understand the merit of identifying with a winner, appeared to anoint...
...Communist leader least likely to be accused of promoting a personality cult is Hungary's Janos Kadar, a man as cold and colorless as the sour cream with which Magyars anoint the spicy stew they call szekely gulyds. Ever since he crushed the 1956 revolt, Premier Kadar has kept his picture off office walls and newspaper pages, remains so unfamiliar that even today he can walk the streets of Budapest without being recognized by many Hungarians. All the same, the new style in Communist circles these days is separation of party and government leadership, and so Kadar last week...
...They anoint my head with the blood of my people...
...this suspense was rather painful for Hubert. But what could he do about it? There was every likelihood that the President might pass him over and anoint someone else. An amiably placid, retiring man like Mike Mansfield might suit Lyndon much more than an extraverted bundle of action like Hubert, for example. If that happened. Humphrey, at Johnson's behest, would in all probability get as a consolation prize Mansfield's job as Democratic majority leader...
Popping a Precedent. Never before in Pulitzer history have Columbia's trustees vetoed a board recommendation,† and never before have the annual Pulitzer prizes failed to anoint a biographer. To compound the mystery, the trustees popped their veto without bothering to inform anyone-even the advisory board-in advance. Then, as questions flew, the trustees took refuge in silence...