Word: camel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gerontological gathering was to nominate a slate of "Prohi" candidates for 1968, a full year ahead of the laggard major parties. That is the only lead the party is likely to enjoy. Having amassed a grand total of 27,000 votes in 1964, the Prohibitionists-whose symbol is a camel, because, as one member explained, "it can go a long way without liquid"-decided to stick with a loser. Renominated for President was E. Har old Munn Sr., 63, an associate dean at Michigan's Hillsdale College. Named as his running mate was Topeka Evangelist Rolland E. Fisher...
...hail to TIME for attempting to re-establish the line between the poet and the square. But-is this a dagger which I see before me? Your artist's rendering of the poet looks very like a camel. Or like a whale. Or like Prufrock peering from a nimbostratus. Lowell is an excellent poet within the confines of his own self-lacerations. But the poet who deserves (in sunlight) to grace your cover is James Dickey, who, far from measuring out his life with coffee spoons, writes with joy and imagination and vitality about the sanguine world in which...
Bowing to the People. Cairo itself went half-mad. Sobbing men ran through the streets like children, wailing "Don't leave us, Abdel Nasser." Women flailed about screaming as if in mourning, scooping up dust and throwing it on their heads. By bus and train, camel and foot, peasants poured into Cairo, inveighing against the "U.S. imperialists" and pleading "Nasser, stay with us!" If, as some intelligence sources indicate, an incipient military coup was in the works against Nasser, the plotters got the message. So did everybody else. Mohieddin announced that he would refuse to take over. Nasser...
Hamlet: Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel...
Polonius: Tis like a camel, indeed...