Word: chases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chevalier de la route then requires that the second car must relentlessly pursue the first until it can finally get by, preferably by cutting off the first car with what is called a queue de poisson-fishtail. This is considered so deep a humiliation that the insulted motorist may chase the other driver for miles just to pay him back in kind...
...young man tries to resist but he cannot; the energy, the zest of the older man sweep him along like a leaf in a gale. Eighty, ninety, a hundred miles an hour and, mamma mia! no hands on the wheel! Two girls appear in a convertible; the playboy gives chase. The police roar after him; he flashes a government pass. Gas, cigarettes, food; the playboy orders but his companion pays. The young man objects to being used; yet at the same time he knows he is getting his money's worth. He is getting a shot...
...Margaret Chase Smith, Republican presidential nominee by acclamation, surprises the convention in San Francisco by asking for Barry Goldwater to be her running mate. Goldwater accepts, saying, "I am convinced that the youth of the country want me to take the position." President Johnson, also nominated by acclamation, leaves the choice of a running mate up to the convention, and says he is "pleased as punch" at the selection of Governor George Wallace, who, he thinks, "will sure steal the thunder from those two Republicans...
Johnson and Wallace sweep to victory at the polls. Margaret Chase Smith, in tears, promises to carry on the fight for the women of America. Goldwater says simply. "I am convinced the youth of America want...
...through the legislature, went handshaking in Detroit, greeted downtown shoppers by saying "Hi there. This state had a deficit when we took office, but now it has a surplus. Merry Christmas." And in Illinois, a group of Republicans announced that they would enter the name of Maine Senator Margaret Chase Smith in their state's presidential primary in April...