Word: bill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louis XIV's Grand Trianon in Versailles, went as smoothly as either nation could expect. One indication that the venerable general was in a benign mood came during the glittering dinner party at the Elysée. Impressed that De Gaulle always speaks without notes, Nixon Speechwriter Bill Safire asked the French President how he did it. "I write it out in longhand and then memorize it," De Gaulle replied. "I tear the page out and throw it away and it is in my mind." Pointing to Nixon, De Gaulle asked Safire: "What about him?" Safire answered...
...powerful Association of American Railroads' lobby has managed to block broad federal legislation that would set minimum safety standards like those required of airlines. A regulatory bill introduced during the last session of Congress got only as far as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, where it suffered a quiet death...
Ominous Click. John was already on the step of the bus when he discovered that he had nothing smaller than a $10 bill. "Off you go, Mac," ordered the driver; alarmed by a rash of bus robberies, the city had decreed that all riders must drop the exact fare into the locked fare box. Drivers were allowed to carry no cash on their person. In desperation, John stepped down and turned to a young woman on the curb to ask for change. "Miss," he began, "could you-" She let him have it with her G-G31 tear-gas device...
...plastic shield, the driver had flicked a switch that locked both rear doors electrically to prevent passengers from taking off before paying the fare. "Where to, fella?" asked a voice from a loudspeaker overhead. John told him. The trip to the office was uneventful, until John put his $10 bill in a revolving tray in the partition and got back change for $5. When he pounded on the plastic and protested, the amplified voice informed him that he had only passed through a fiver-and that the driver was an off-duty cop. John decided to write...
...determining event was the threemeter dive, which featured a battle between the two best divers in the league--Mike Brown of Dartmouth and Harvard's Bill Murphy. Brown beat Murphy last year and, earlier yesterday, had edged him in the one-meter competition...