Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last fall, at her annual Supreme Court party, not a single justice snowed up. More recently, she did manage to snare Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges for an evening "just in the middle of that steel crisis." But her party honoring the Duke and Duchess of Windsor was a real bomb; the Maxwell Taylors and Ormsby-Gores were there, but the affair was mostly populated by people like the ambassador from Iceland. So bad have things got that the old rivals, Perle and Gwen, now attend one another's parties...
...issue of nuclear disarmament, the position of the British Labor Party has been ambiguous. Many left-wing unionists, pursuing a traditional, sentimental pacifism, sympathize with the unilateralist ban-the-bomb campaign led by Philosopher Bertrand Russell and other politically woozy intellectuals; at a national party convention 18 months ago, the left-wingers pushed through resolutions demanding that Britain renounce nuclear weapons. Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell later won a reversal of the party's official stand, but not until last week did he attack the nuclear disarmers in a scathing, unequivocal denunciation that drew only cheers from realistic antiCommunists...
...happened at a Labor Party rally in Glasgow's Queen's Park. Scarcely had Gaitskell begun a routine political speech than 300 youthful ban-the-bomb hecklers arose from their seats at a signal, marched to the speaker's stand waving placards and chanting slogans. A woman lifted a baby toward Gaitskell, yelled: "I want my child to live!" Snapped Gaitskell: "So do I. and I have two daughters...
...ever a genuine author who blamed the landscape for his failure. It is only after his heart has left him that he seeks excuses, and then he resorts to them with a relish that most of us save for deep shade on a hot day. Mother taxes, the bomb, far from feeding his inspiration, are now the very stuff (he says) that poisoned him. He intoned with authority against the parlous times. He wrings his hands and he yells for reform. When this happens is he not the same man as the one who attacks "Harvard" for the lack...
Tough, able Sergeant Riglioni, himself only fitfully rational, blurredly watches the breakup. It takes the form of a mania for light. At night, huddled sleeplessly in bomb-crushed cellars, the men crave candles. They try scraping wax from ration boxes, but the lights they make burn only for seconds. Then a replacement shows up, squeamish in combat but eerily skillful at finding large quantities of wax. He guards his secret, but the obsessed men find it out: the wax comes from holy figures in household shrines and churches...