Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Feeling No Pain. To the Post, Dorothy was a "colossus of gainful employment," daily parading in fame and trailed by envy. At the very start of its first article the Post lifted an eyebrow at the fact that Reporter Kilgallen covered New York's 1957 welcome to Queen Elizabeth from "the lonely splendor" of a limousine in the official procession up Broadway. (Says Dorothy: "What's wrong with that? I rented a limousine, and some darling generals and police captains were nice enough to let my car swing into line with the procession.") "At 47," said the Post...
...people he represents. Somehow-with flashing smile that never faded, with dignity that never truckled, with simple words that went down as well in Argentina as they do in Abilene-the President got across the message of creative friendship and collective responsibility in the name of the long-misunderstood "Colossus of the North...