Word: caning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...left ankle when his horse kicked him. Then he sprained the same ankle while walking on his Ohio farm. Just to keep the ankle out of trouble while Humphrey's schedule is so tight, doctors this time put foot and ankle in a cast, gave the Secretary a cane for support...
...Cadillac seemed drab and commonplace. Detroit's James F. Jones. Dominion Ruler of the Church of the Universal Triumph, the Dominion of God. Inc., was wearing a $235 light brown suit, yellow checked vest, yellow shoes, red socks and red tie. Even more arresting were his gold-handled cane, the topaz earring on his left ear. the diamond, ruby and topaz rings on his left hand, the diamond and topaz bracelets and heavy gold chain on his left wrist. Prophet Jones always wears his jewelry on the left. He explains that God always approaches him from the right...
...chum has been closer, no tool more useful than Secretary of State Without Portfolio Anselmo Paulino Alvarez. Whenever islanders talk of the terroristic carro de la muerte (death car) that disposed of the regime's earlier enemies, or the later massacre of 15,000 immigrant Haitian sugar-cane cutters, Paulino's name comes up. In payment for such chores Trujillo let Paulino wrap his blimplike belly in the uniform of an honorary major general and play the role of Despot No. 2. Inevitably, No. 2 got to thinking of himself as a likely successor. But that...
...jumping higher than Bostomans had seen in a long while. Cause: the mambo a dance named (some claim) from a slang word used by Cuban sugar cane workers meaning "shake it." The Boston crowd (1,140 Paid admissions) was shaking it with glee. So were the bright-sleeved musicians on the band stand and their round-faced, sleepy-eyed leader Perez Prado, self-confessed inventor of the mambo. In his dress suit and stiff shirt Prado never even blinked at the deafening brass screeches that threatened to shatter the red neon tubes framing the ceiling. Only 50-odd couples actually...
Mitchell's remarks denoted that he had no evidence to back his charge, and he offered none later. In Atlanta, where Bob Jones's reputation for personal integrity is even higher than his fame as a golfer, people watched Jones limp from car to office on a cane (he is crippled from a spinal injury), and wondered out loud why Stephen Mitchell was chairman of the party to which they and their grandfathers belonged...