Word: demolishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were among us, until the wife of almost everyone appeared on the scene during the last week in Venice. One man did greet his with unfeigned ardor. "Props" man was eager to return with her to his English home. Together, skillfully, painstakingly, they would pull up their floors, demolish the walls and the roof. Every year they made this house yield new halls and secret passageways, new skylights and new rooms. It was the best "set" of all, infinitely plastic to their desires...
...empty-chair approach offers an obvious advantage to the interviewers, who can demolish a guest for inconsistencies, evasions or even outright untruths without having to do it to his face. If it seems rather unfair, the fact is that TV's panel interviewers only occasionally offer that sort of candid criticism while the guest is still around to fight back...
...town, in turn, has shown its fist. Starting back in 1967, the township has served Owner Walter K. Pleuthner, 83, with legal papers ordering him to demolish the house. Local officials believe a succession of small fires have damaged the structure so much that it is "dangerous and unsafe." Pleuthner contends that the fires only "mellowed" his home's great oak beams, answers each suit with delaying tactics or countersuit. When officials threatened to bulldoze the structure last month, Pleuthner's lawyer won a temporary restraining order. Said he: "Scarsdale doesn't like it because it doesn...
...overwhelming. In the record turnout of 764,000 Democrats. Kennedy got 42% of the vote; Governor Roger Branigin, who adopted a favorite-son stance as Humphrey's not-so-secret ally, received 31%; McCarthy polled 27%. While Kennedy failed both to roll up a ma jority and to demolish McCarthy, the timing of his first-place finish and his surprisingly broad base of support gave the New Yorker's campaign a solid, if less than meteoric, boost...
...Kennedy's candidacy offers little more prospect than McCarthy's of dumping President Johnson--for two reasons. First, like McCarthy, Kennedy is at the mercy of a world and national scene over which he has no influence. Catastrophe of a grandeur sufficient to demolish LBJ, should it occur, might demolish him under any circumstances, with or without previous opposition in the primaries. Second, Kennedy by virtue of his name and reputation must rack up overwhelming margins to equal the impact of McCarthy's 42 per cent in New Hampshire: if the Kennedy charisma proves less dynamic in the event than...