Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...discarded husband and father of 29 years before turns up to meet his sons and resample a bit of the vocal and emotional hell that he and their mother can still give each other. Old rage rather than old age is their subject. Alan Webb, as an ancient butler, potters and poeticizes near life's exit with a funny and touching gallantry and even cheats incipient rigor mortis a couple of times...
...sense, the familiar discussion of military preparedness was overshadowed by NATO's "general recognition," as Secretary-General Dirk Stikker summed it up, "of a change in the atmosphere of world affairs." British Foreign Secretary R. A. Butler echoed a common view that in the wake of the Kremlin's retreat in the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviets "have renounced the policy of high risks in dealing with the West." U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk, while warning that the Communists could create new dangers with unpredictable and perilous speed, hinted that the array of problems facing Russia...
Dunne still wrote warmly of Teddy Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Irish patriot Michael Collins, but he was harder on his enemies. When Nicholas Murray Butler joshed him about his weight, Dunne snapped: "Yes, my fat goes under my belt, but yours goes under your hat." At the 1916 Republican Convention, writes Dunne, "Henry Cabot Lodge would have given an eye for the nomination. Or perhaps that is going too far. Let us say he would have sacrificed his dearest friend for the honor...
...Kirsch and Peter Basch in foil and Larry Butler in sabre each scored a touch...
...sabre, Paul Zygas and Larry Butler both turned in good performances against M.I.T. Thursday, and could provide a few triumphs today also...