Word: coughings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent Phillips censure controversy. It seems possible that some of those who were disappointed with the out-come of the anti-Phillips campaign are now entertaining notions of severing relations with the Council in order to disassociate themselves with Phillips. That smacks of cutting the throat to cure the cough. What many feel to be irresponsibility on Phillips' part is not the fault of the Council. When a question as serious as that raised by the Dunster referendum is involved, it is incumbent on all concerned to ascertain that their motives are not the product of personal distaste...
...audience had not come to hear a controversial speech by Mrs. Roosevelt; the topic of her address was not even printed on the program. Almost reverently the crowd greeted the former President's wife with a standing ovation; not even a cough broke the respectful silence which lasted throughout her informal remarks...
...Rooney's tastes, the $953,000 budget was well below the level provided by West Germany; it was barely $100,000 over the 1961 request, even though the U.S. has had to open 14 embassies and three consulates in new African countries. Result: U.S. diplomats will have to cough up an estimated $700,000 out of their own pockets for entertainment they consider essential to their jobs...
...Embarrassed Cough." The U.S. press took a far dimmer view. "The background noise you hear," said the New York Post in a sly dig at Chain-Smoker Murrow, "is an embarrassed cigarette cough." The New York Times's TV Critic Jack Gould all but invited Murrow to retire: "If Mr. Murrow was acting under orders of the State Department, he should have resigned after 24 hours in office. If Mr. Murrow acted on his own responsibility, his action constitutes an inexplicable refutation of the principle he has enunciated for years-that the good and the bad about this country...
...records, which have sold over $1,000,000 worth of copies, round out an income of $500,000 a year. Currently playing (at close to $10,000 a week) the enormous Empire Room at Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria, where a joke can get lost as easily as a cough in a wind tunnel, he is financially the most successful of the New Comedians...