Word: betook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just when Kennedy was trying to calm the business community,* Solicitor General Archibald Cox betook himself back to Harvard for a speech calculated to make any businessman blanch with dismay. His message: a way must be found to bring Government into wage-and-price-making decisions on a regular basis and at ''a fairly early stage" in the process. It may be enough for now that the Government "make known, widely and forcefully, the general policies that it thinks would advance the public interest." said Cox, but "there are a number of reasons for thinking that...
...hours of voluntary purdah. In deference to Arab custom, women were omitted from the official White House dinner for the King. Jackie flew off to Manhattan with her sister, Princess Lee Radziwill (for undisclosed reasons). That night, after the Saud dinner, Jack Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson betook themselves to a party given by the President's sister, Eunice Shriver. J.F.K. was dancing when the orchestra began a twist, but kept on sedately fox-trotting...
With absolutely no visible prompting from her newly hired pressagent, Metropolitan Opera Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias, 27, supposedly betook herself to Manhattan's Bowery where, for $5, she got herself tattooed with her name and social security number (023-22-9834). Alleged reason: "In this day of possible large-scale disaster, all of us should wear identification." Alleged site of identification: the lower abdomen. Explained the sultry singer, as her pressagent showed unconcealed delight: "I couldn't think of a more inconspicuous place...