Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could forever foreclose the Continent's option of becoming an equal thermonuclear power. Over those specific negotiations, with which Humphrey was immediately concerned, hung the intertwined questions of Viet Nam and East-West rapprochement. Through it all, the Vice President-plainly relishing his liberation from the domestic creamed-chicken circuit-enjoyed more grand ceremony and grand cru wine than could be served in a year of Washington receptions...
...image. T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his mythological status because of the "cringing, obsequious" way he called Augustus John "Master." Besides, after he bragged to the children that he lived on a daily handful of raisins, Lawrence's icebox was discovered to be stuffed with chicken, meat, butter...
Always Evasive. Despite all the words and resolutions, though, the Socialists and Communists are not about to form a full-scale leftist front. Beneath the current display of comradeship lie decades of bitter enmity, of unforgotten Communist boasts that they would "pluck the Socialist chicken" and Socialist taunts that the Communists were "not left but East." The differences have not been buried. The Socialists still agree with De Gaulle's assessment that "the Communists are not a French party" but "an army" that takes its orders from Moscow. Socialist leaders do not miss the fact that French Communists...
...engineering students at the University of Detroit admitted that they were "too chicken" to call up General Motors themselves. So they contacted the Detroit Free Press's troubleshooting "Action Line" to ask if the paper might be able to arrange a G.M. courtesy car for their guest speaker to use for a couple of days. Sure, said G.M., when the paper called. The company rolled out a 1967 Chevy with shoulder harnesses, head braces, disc brakes, emergency flasher switch, freeway lane-changer signal, padded instrument panel and energy-absorbing steering column. It remained to be seen whether all that...
Citing Vice President Hubert Humphrey's statement that Vietcong political participation in Vietnam would be like "letting a fox into a chicken coop," the group asks how the Administration can expect the other side to come to the conference table without guaranteeing them a "meaningful political role...