Word: colde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Humphrey is banking heavily on the expectation that even among Democrats and independents who are not wildly enthusiastic about his own candidacy, Nixon will appear the less palatable alternative. Accordingly, he is already moving to underscore Nixon's record as a "cold warrior" and a flappable politician in an era that calls for coolness...
...last few years, statesmen and scholars have tended to relegate the cold war to the history books. With the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, the old deep freeze has once again engulfed U.S.-Russian relations. Last week, in measured moves designed to express distrust and disapproval, both Defense and State Departments stiffened the U.S. posture against the Soviet Union...
...final day, but that might have been construed as an attempt to steal the show from Humphrey. Moreover, he himself realized that the delegates, on the night of the filmed tribute to Robert Kennedy, might be less than receptive. As it was, the memorial movie stopped the convention cold. With Broadway Star Theodore Bikel leading the way, and Actress Shirley MacLaine weeping freely, delegates sang chorus after chorus of the Battle Hymn of the Republic while the chairman futilely gaveled for silence...
...riot's viciousness, the inmates offered no grievances to explain their outbreak beyond the normal gripes of prison life. In that, they were less articulate than the prisoners of the Marine brig at Danang, who rioted briefly three weeks ago. They had complained of cold food, excessive discipline, and long delays before trial. When the brig commander, Lieut. Colonel Joseph Gambardella, promised to look into their complaints, they calmed down and cleared up their cell block; and except for a brief flare-up when 40 parolees and trusties were moved out, that was the end of it. The prisoners...
Paperback Freud. Rachel stands in the "exact middle" of her existence: she is 35. She is also at dead center, emotionally inert. Like a cold moon, she rotates around her widowed mother, reflecting all of Mamma's neuroses and ailments. When parents and children stay together too long, the relationship slips into reverse. Edging toward middle age Rachel becomes an adolescent. She seeks solace in masturbation, the first refuge of the child, the last hiding place of the isolated. Like a teen-ager making tentative explorations, she writhes with a suffocating guilt and murmurs to herself...