Word: deeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deed and by word, Washington addressed Hanoi last week in unwonted concert. The message was clear. Despite all the antiwar sentiment in the universities and within the U.S. Senate, despite all the Administration's avowals that it will explore any reasonable route toward a negotiated peace, the American people, however unhappy or confused about the war, agree in greater numbers than ever that it must continue to be fought-at least to the kind of conclusion that permits a realization of the Allies' aims...
...Dirksen's distaste for the reapportionment ruling is puzzling, since it has helped Republicans more than it has hurt them. Initially, political scientists thought that the state legislatures would see a swift, drastic transfer of power from rural areas to the predominantly Democratic inner cities. Power has in deed flowed away from rural representatives-but to suburbia, where political loyalties are still in flux and Republicans are more often elected than Democrats...
Unwashed Savages. For his readers, his associates, his friends, his kin and for life itself, Ohioan Bierce never had a kind word or deed. He called his parents "unwashed savages" before they died; and when they died, he did not trouble to attend their funerals. After 33 years of marriage marked by frequent periods of absenteeism, his wife sued him for divorce on grounds of desertion. His two sons died sordid deaths, one a suicide (after killing his girl friend's husband), the other from pneumonia contracted during a drinking bout. His daughter saw him so seldom that...
...named Popkins, who is usually dressed in a bathrobe and is really a Russian in disguise. The plot revolves around Frankenstein's attempts to sell the country out piecemeal to the Communists. The play ends happily when That Man dies of what looks like a stroke (actually, the deed is done by a haberdasher named Falseman who wants to be President...
...Doorway. Clouding the whole presidential picture is Alabama's Wallace, a magnum of mischief in a half-pint package. If Wallace does in deed run as a third-party candidate, warns Goldwater, "he'll take votes away from Republicans," probably in the very Southern states that Barry carried in 1964: Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina...