Word: crosswords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main threat to Britain's application seems to be the British themselves. While Monnet was speaking at a press conference in Brussels about the desirability of European political federation, former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home glanced up from a crossword puzzle and told newsmen that "we British are a practical people. We want to confront a situation first before we think about setting up an institution to handle it." During the same session, British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart said that plans for a European Parliament were "premature." Such statements made many Europeans wonder whether the British...
...rarely meet. His office is the Dillon Field House Training Room, which he has occupied for the last 19 years. If he isn't helping an athlete recover from an injury, Jack is usually sitting behind his desk, in a corner, rapid-reading a newspaper or knocking out a crossword puzzle in a couple of minutes...
Required by the city government to attend, some Houston police grumbled, read paperbacks or worked crossword puzzles during initial sessions. At the time, Police Chief Herman Short, a tough traditionalist, helped little with snide remarks about "slobbering sociologists." But as the meetings progressed, he apologized for the slur, and even uncooperative officers began venting their feelings. At one meeting a veteran police sergeant blurted, "I've hated niggers all my life, and every time I see a car with a Texas Southern University* sticker on it I'm going to harass the hell out of that driver...
...DELL CROSSWORD DICTIONARY...
IRONSIDE (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Raymond (Perry Mason) Burr stars as Robert T. Ironside, a paraplegic who serves as a civilian consultant to the San Francisco Detective Bureau. For a starter, he takes a crossword collection of puzzling clues and fills out the solution to a race-track robbery. Premi...