Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...where a victory in the Democratic primary is almost the same as election, the Republicans have put up a serious Senate candidate for the first time since Reconstruction. Running against Johnston will be William D. Workman Jr.. 47, a segregationist and former reporter (he still writes a syndicated column) who joined the Republican Party only last fall...
Point-Blank. As the government column inched through town, dozens of men were killed by rebels firing from windows and rooftops. Not until tanks blasted Puerto Cabello's hospital at point-blank range did its rebel defenders give up; students holed up in the high school fought on bitterly. In one classroom, Betancourt's troops found a huge portrait of Fidel Castro. They carried it outside, shredded it with their burp guns, and got on with the bloody, block-by-block fighting...
...many years a U.S. citizen, Julio (pronounced hoo-lee-oh) de Diego is a gaunt, intense man, who suffers from the burden of being known to gossip-column readers only as a former husband of Gypsy Rose Lee. As an artist, he fits into no easy pigeonhole, and is far from what is commonly considered to be the mainstream of modern art. He is a traditionalist at heart-and one of the best-yet he is not afraid to pursue an eccentric notion wherever it may lead. Last week a De Diego show that opened at Manhattan's Landry...
...York, scene of the disaster, Manhattan papers scrambled to make up for lost time. The Times crammed 14 stories and 250 column inches on the slump into a single issue. With less space to play with, the Herald Tribune still broke out in a rash of eight stories, as well as a Page One editorial blaming the decline on President Kennedy ("Unease about Mr. Kennedy's course is undeniably a major factor"). Hearst's Journal-American waved one streamer after another, in appropriate red ink. But behind all this breathless coverage lay a fact in which...
...only one in the play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody will be fooled by pseudo-Greek trappings. "This body was as stately," writes Swarthout, preparing for a seduction scene, "as classic in its shaft of rib and hip and thigh as a column of Ionic order, the lavish capitals of the breasts as perfect, the belly ornate as the enfabled girdle called Cestus...