Word: dimes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Airport when the darkened Convair winged in from West Virginia. Jackie Kennedy lay curled in sleep on a back seat, but her husband, the hero of the night before, was wide awake. As soon as the plane door opened, he hurried over to a vending machine, plunked in a dime and plucked out an early edition of the Washington Post. KENNEDY SWEEPS WEST VA. VOTE, proclaimed the headline. Chuckled Jack Kennedy: "I wouldn't be surprised if Lyndon and Stu might be having a conference today...
...lagniappe. a Fiat, a chinchilla stole, and a week in Las Vegas were auctioned off. Benny bid $200 for the privilege of hearing himself accompany George Burns. Burns upped the bid to $500, on the condition that Benny keep silent. He played anyway, and someone threw a dime at him. Sinatra kicked ice cubes at the audience and got into a staring match with John Wayne. The gaiety, which could hardly have been surpassed at a Forty & Eight Fun Night, continued till...
...congressional Republicans, caught in the Administration's policy turnaround, said noncommittally that Medicare "deserved study." House G.O.P. Leader and Budget Crusader Charlie Halleck admitted sadly that it was a "budget buster." Arizona's Barry Goldwater raised the cry of "socialized medicine," called the plan part of a "dime-store New Deal." The American Medical Association damned it from the one side as unnecessary, while the A.F.L.-C.I.O.-which has led the political crusade for the Forand bill-damned it from the other as political. New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner called it "absolutely stupid...
Humorist Thurber tends to blame The New Yorker's drawbacks on the changing tastes of the times: "The New Yorker has represented every damn decade in which it's been published. In the '20s, humorists were a dime a dozen; everyone was drinking champagne and cutting up neckties. In 1960, everyone's talking too much, reminiscing about his childhood. You can't get humor into the magazine if people aren't writing...
...moneyman." he said on Milton's Main Street. "I want to bring back politics to the people, to Main Street." In Hamlin he rose to a high for hokum: "They say, 'Don't cut foreign aid to Formosa, but don't give one dime to West Virginia.' This is a one-eyed Government: one eye looking overseas and the other eye closed...