Word: borings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Yearning for Nixon. Chairman Butler said that . . . the Democrats were yearning for Vice President Nixon to run in 1956 because he is "the worst Vice President in 35 years." Butler bore down: "He has trampled on the best traditions of American politics . . ." Nixon's coming good-will visit to the Middle East was "a good way to see the world at public expense ... I think the people are becoming aware of the fact that Nixon is not sincere...
...presence of his first major opportunity." He would hang for a moment on the microphone, holding it itchily, as if it were a snake. "His face was like a wet rag." His chest caved in, as if from the weight of the enormous zoot shoulders it bore, and a huge, floppy bow tie hung down like the ears of a spaniel. For a moment he would look among his audience, pleadingly, as if searching for his mother, and then he would begin, timidly and with trembling lips, to sing...
...from 132 to 118 lbs., his voice was shot, his record sales had practically stopped. His relations with the press were in shreds. Church groups were fighting him because of all the scandal. The Government was after him for $110,000 in back taxes. "Anyone know of a bigger bore just now," the Daily News inquired, "than Frank Sinatra?" Frankie, said the boys in Toots Shor's and in Chasen's, was done...
...Evidence that 1) Yale was sacked as governor because he used his position for excessive private profit, and 2) after he had seen his wife off alone for England, he lived in the same house with Mrs. Nicks and a Portuguese mistress, Hieronima de Paivia, who bore...
...announced that the two had been captured, and the Boss's Wife charged with espionage. In her pockets they found wads of drachmas and six well-thumbed photographs of five-year-old Joseph, sent to her by Niko since her arrival in Greece. On the back, each snapshot bore the date and the current weight of little Joseph...