Word: blessed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks, the come-on ads for Disk Jockey Howard Miller's new radio show reverberated over Chicago's WCFL: "Howard Power! Howard Power! Howard Power!" Massed choruses sang God Bless America as Miller earnestly avowed: "I'm proud to be a flag waver! And I'll be waving it plenty every morning. You will find me ready, hard-hitting with truth and justice." In a full-page, flag-bedecked newspaper ad, Miller pledged his allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, the President, servicemen, policemen and firemen. Miller's No. 1 fan, Mayor Richard Daley, delivered...
KURT VONNEGUT has written five novels (Player Piano, Cat's Cradle, God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater, or Pearls Before Swine, Mother Night, and The Sirens of Titan); periodic short stories that keep popping up in magazines like Playboy and science fiction anthologies like Tomorrow, the Stars; a book of collected short stories called Welcome to the Monkey-house; and a new novel out this spring called The Slaughterhouse Five, the first two chapters of which were recently printed in Ramparts...
...brand-new. It is certainly livelier than either of the other candidates'. To open a rally, there is "Sam Smith and His American Independent Party Band," a small combo with electrified instruments that churns out Nashville-style country music and leads the audience in a slow rendition of God Bless America. Then on come the Taylor Sisters, Mona and Lisa, two seasoned blondes who harmonize a couple of toe-tapping standards and belt out an anthem entitled Are You for Wallace? (to the tune of Are You from Dixie...
Much of Wallace's appeal lies in personal contact. After each talk, dozens of Wallaceites line up patiently to shake his hand and say "God bless you, Governor," or "You're the only hope for America." The candidate acknowledges each message with a hand squeeze and a nod, occasionally saying "Thank y'all for heppin...
...band began playing God Bless America, in a slow and sentimental tempo, led by a sweet trumpet. Now everybody sing, said the aide, and the whole thing swelled up and that funny feeling stirred in people's stomachs...