Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alone, dear," says Lady Bird Johnson, seated at the breakfast table with her husband. "You can refer to him by name instead of 'my opponent.' " ∙Gushes the sweet young thing to her studious male escort: "I guess I am to you what Cuba is to Russia-friendly, but expensive!" ∙To the police sergeant, the patrolman explains a fact of modern life: "You can tell the delinquents who come from affluent families-instead of razors they use electric carving knives!" These needle-sharp political gibes are the work of James O. Berry, 32, whose cartoon feature, Berry...
...infatuation of a child with his own potency, the love to hear again and again of his power to make the politicians pander to his whims. And like a child or a puppy, those people (you, dear reader) have no memory. Will they recall what columnist two weeks ago failed to call the score in Nebraska? And if they did, and if he'd got it wrong, would they take him to task, and tell him to alter his system of prediction or get off the public page...
...election was a squeaker-and the government it produced would have to hang on for dear life. Labor won the election, but it did not win the country, and it only barely won control of the House of Commons. The outcome almost too neatly balanced growing dissatisfaction and boredom with the Tories against lingering distrust of the socialists...
...newsroom with a little item for the paper's servicemen's column. She had a letter from her son, James J. Kress, 20, a fireman aboard the U.S. destroyer Richard S. Edwards, and she wanted Jimmy's friends to know where he was. The letter began: "Dear Mom and Dad: In case you haven't heard the names of those destroyers that were attacked in the Tonkin Gulf last Friday night, they were the R. S. Edwards and the Morton. Yep, we were there, all right...
...Sample: "Dear Sir-You should know that some crackpot is writing me letters and signing your name...