Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Promises and piecrust," observed Dr. Swift, "are made to be broken." By ignoring such cynicism, California's Ronald Reagan risked a lot of pastry. During his election campaign, the new Republican Governor had pledged "sound financial management," and last week had the crust to demand the highest budget ever proposed in any American state, buttressed by the biggest tax boost in California history...
...back to the McLaughlin-McLean contretemps-a falling-out romantically attributed to a slur on one mug's moll-they theorize that other motives have since arisen. Many of the victims made their living as loan sharks. This is big, if disorganized, business in Boston's lower crust. The "vigorish," or profit, is estimated at $1,000,000 a week. With that kind of take, the competition for trade is bound to be keen. As might be expected, the surplus of bodies has been accompanied by a dearth of witnesses and evidence. Just five of the 43 killings...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Britain's upper-crust spy chasers, John Steed and Emma Peel, return to save democracy-or at least Her Majesty Diana Rigg and Patrick Macnee star in the first episode, "From Venus with Love...
Even as they slog through the lave pits of childhood and adolescence, most youths are forming some vision of what shape the cooled adult crust will take, how high the peaks will soar. For their models, they look to their fathers, older brothers, a teacher, a figure plunked from history-an Alexander or a Gehrig, a Shaw or a Morgan, a Renoir or a Luciano. for Raoul Levy, born of a Russian-Jewish family in Antwerp, educated there and at the London School of Economics, an R.A.F. veteran of World War II, there never seems to have been much doubt...
...time of the Sudetenland crisis and found Eden in despair but still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives a vivid picture of the discord it caused among his upper-crust friends. When Chamberlain announced that he was making a second trip to Munich, he noted, "Raymond [Mortimer] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this ghastly?' Eddy [Sackville-West] rings me up and says, 'Isn't this hell?' Margot Oxford rings me up and says...