Word: courtship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Courtship of Eddie's Father. A young man named Ronny Howard is Hollywood's latest heartthrob, but to look at him you'd never know it. His hair is the color of iodine. His teeth are separated by gaps he can push a pea through. His face is so heavily freckled his eyes can be located only when he blinks. Furthermore, he stands a mere 5 ft. 1 in., weighs less than 70 Ibs., and talks in a squeaky little voice that sounds as if it came from a nine-year-old boy. It does. It comes...
When Esperanza Rojas was 15, she fell in love with 19-year-old Agustin Infante. After an eight-day courtship, they set up housekeeping in a Caracas slum. They gave no thought to matrimony, but then neither had Esperanza's mother nor her older brothers and sisters. The love affair was stormy, filled with arguments and fights, and twice Esperanza went home to mother, each time swollen with child. Now, four years later, Esperanza and her two children live with her mother in a wood-and-cardboard shack, and she accepts her deserted, unwed state as quite natural...
Flattery & Blame. Krock complains about the "social flattery" which the President directs toward Washington newsmen, but he is forced to confess: "I have myself on occasion been infused with the warmth of good will engendered by this courtship of a suitor of such charm and unique distinction...
...would be ready to accept a call to the chancellorship if my party and the Bundestag so decided," he announced, clearly hoping that others felt as he did. After all, many of West Germany's restive politicians had been grumbling over Charles de Gaulle's courtship of der Alte, wondering whether the price of Germany's new friendship treaty with France was an unacceptable subservience to France, and whether it required siding with the French against both Britain...
...love me in my every humour? Or would you prefer to think of me as always dignified?" wrote Woodrow Wilson to his first wife, Ellen Louise Axson, during their courtship. "I am afraid it would kill me," he added, "to be always thoughtful, sensible, dignified and decorous." But until a collection of 1,458 love letters to "Miss Ellie Lou" was presented to Princeton University by the couple's youngest daughter, Mrs. Eleanor McAdoo, 72, the world's image of Wilson was just that. Covering a span of 31 years, from their first meeting until Mrs. Wilson...