Word: asset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peddled a solution of water, sugar and Epsom salts called the Hot Springs System Tonic. Mississippi showboats, minstrel shows and vaudeville later gave Red his secondary education and set him up for radio, Hollywood and television, but Dr. Lewis, inadvertently, had already shown him his best professional asset. The "doctor" pushed Red off the medicine wagon one day, and when the boy nose-dived to the ground, the crowd shook with laughter. Skelton has fallen like rain ever since, spattering himself all over sets and stages. He has banged up arms, fingers, ribs, and suffered one serious concussion...
...more at first, but "we must, and should be willing to pay more in order to take a big bite out of the surplus" by a target date four years hence. "No more exciting challenge will confront the next President and his Administration than that of making a national asset, rather than a liability, out of our nation's ability to produce more food and fiber than any other people on earth...
...last week, as he met with cheers, applause and eager handshakes at one campaign stop after another, Candidate Lodge was obviously getting used to running for Vice President, and was plainly an asset to the Republican ticket. It may be that he will help it enough to get even with the man who defeated...
...soon as he could get out campaigning. The campaign had hardly begun. It would be won or lost, not in the South or the Farm Belt, or even in the big industrial states -New York, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and California-where Kennedy confidently counted his Catholicism an asset rather than a liability. It would be won or lost in the nation as a whole. For this is the first truly national campaign in which both candidates will have undreamed-of exposure, ample time to present their cases and display their judgment and temperament-a campaign in which sectional, class...
...sprints, a puff of wind at the wrong time in the high jump or pole vault, a foul in the shotput or discus, a broken stride in the hurdles, and poof, it could be all over for one of these boys." Under such pressure, Johnson's greatest asset will be his bedrock of self-reliance, a quality that keeps him from having few really intimate friends, but allows him to work himself up to a cold competitive pitch ten times during the wearying grind of the decathlon. In Rome, Johnson will have an added incentive: he is quitting...