Word: box
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stealing the Show. The next night Lyndon returned to the convention to deliver his acceptance speech. But Humphrey spoke first, and in the process stole the show from the old show-stealer himself. Lyndon sat in the presidential box, by turns looking statesmanlike, preoccupied, annoyed, and just plain bored. On the rostrum Humphrey all but brought down the rafters...
Negro Leader Stanley Branche stood on a box at a street corner, used a bullhorn to plead: "Please go home. Please go home. This is doing us no good." The mob answered with hoots, threw stones, bricks and bottles at him, hit him in the leg. Philadelphia N.A.A.C.P. President Cecil Moore shouted: "Come out of that store! Quit looting that store!" A woman climbed atop an overturned refrigerator to yell: "Black man, do you hear me? Cecil has nothing to tell you. I'm a black woman. Let them take...
Jack in the Box. Khanh and other army commanders had hesitated until the last moment to use force to quell the riots since they wanted to avoid making martyrs. Late in the week, faced with a real chance that Communist-led mobs might take over Saigon, the government finally rushed in paratroopers, who cleared the streets at bayonet point. Buddhist and Catholic leaders issued statements disclaiming responsibility for any further riots. About all Washington spokesmen could do was to assure everyone again that "there is absolutely no chance that we will pull out of Viet...
...Jack Owen" had evidently been thrown into the box after all the other contenders had bogged down in deadlock, and it would be a miracle if he completed his short term. Asked what had happened to Khanh, Oanh explained that his ex-boss was still technically Premier but unfortunately "unwell," perhaps "mentally" from the long strain, and had repaired to the mountain resort of Dalat, South Viet Nam's traditional resting place for politically afflicted generals. Khanh had kept four untrusted officers there himself for seven months. Oanh allowed as how it might be a lengthy illness. "I would...
...leftovers on their plates that restaurant supply houses now sell millions of special greaseproof containers for this purpose each year. "The demand is growing so great," says a flack for elegant Ernie's in San Francisco, "that we are now in the process of having a foil-lined box designed for us that will carry the restaurant's crest...