Word: blowup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...running for Governor, invoked JFK's name with liturgical repetition, but his speaking style was more like that of the younger Kennedys. He still had the monotonously rhythmic Massachusetts voice, nervous, clipped phrasing. Like everyone on the podium, he seemed to be staring out at a great imaginary photo-blowup of one of John Fitzgerald Kennedy's shy smiles, carnestly trying to mimic...
...Blowup. All that is known for certain is that on the morning of Feb. 10, 1567, conspirators ignited a massive charge of gunpowder and demolished Kirk o'Field, a royal residence where Lord Darnley, Mary's dissolute young husband, lay recovering from a severe case of pox that most likely was secondary syphilis. But Darnley was not a victim of the blast. In some manner, which has always bemused and tantalized historians, he and a servant got away to a nearby garden, where they were waylaid and strangled...
...Orly Field outside Paris, Brigitte Bardot, 30, and Jeanne Moreau, 37, looked an awful lot like a couple of doting teen-age chums. Vraiment, mes cheresl After 16 weeks together, filming Louis Malle's Viva Maria! in Mexico, les girls hadn't come close to a blowup-even for publicity-and now they seemed downright cozy. "We get along like two pals in the army," murmured Moreau fondly. C'est la guerre...
...underdeveloped economy, unemployed city dwellers, illiterate back-country peasants. Among his strongest allies are Chile's 30,000 card-carrying Communists and their followers. He openly calls himself a Marxist, once termed Castro a "political genius," keeps Fidel's picture on his office wall and a blowup of the anti-Yanqui Declaration of Havana just outside the door...
...reform for Chile's ills: 1) a strict, centrally planned economy; 2) "authentic" land reform, meaning the expropriation of all large farms; and 3) nationalization of the U.S. copper companies. He terms Castro a "political genius," has Fidel's picture on his office wall and a framed blowup of the Declaration of Havana hanging in the hall outside. He openly calls himself a Marxist. "But I am not a Communist," he says, "and that is very important for the U.S. to remember." Nevertheless, Allende has the wholehearted blessings of Chile's 30,000 card-carrying Communists...