Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dust to get to the palace on time. Buses broke down bearing his entourage of 60 (including Wife Muriel, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, a personal photographer, and an official in charge of "the box" of codes needed to respond to a thermonuclear war in case Lyndon Johnson should die). Soviet Diplomat Alexander Alexandrov found his hotel room accidentally wired up to a U.S. communications center. Reporters covering the Vice President were crammed into a hastily scrubbed brothel armed with cans of bug repellent. But next morning Humphrey was cheerily wishing all comers a hearty New Year as his feet...
Rather proudly, Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse notes that during four terms in the Senate "I have violated all the political rules." And then some. He has switched parties in midcareer, practically accused Lyndon Johnson of murder for sending American boys to die in Viet Nam, infuriated his own state party by endorsing the 1966 Republican senatorial candidate. For all his contrary ways, he has always been invincible on election day. Yet, if polls are even an approximate indication of voter sentiment, Morse, 67, may now be vincible. Last week, home for the holidays, the Senate's rule breaker went...
...have provided 50% of the financing; seven of their Wall Street friends have put up the other half. If Cheetah does not make it, however, Simmons has a more conventional iron in the fire. This month he brings out a magazine devoted to a fad that will doubtless never die: Weight-Watchers...
...Smart. I have to know. Linda." Several of the small fry pose questions that defy convincing theological answers: "Dear God, Charles my cat got run over. And if you made it happen you have to tell me why. Harvey." Or: "Dear God, Do good people have to die young? I heard my mommy say that. I am not always good. Yours Truly, Barbara." Though most of the children appear to conceive of God as a bigger-than-life human, a few seem to have a touch of the demythologizer about them. One seven-year-old penned:"Dear...
Failure meant the end of the world. I had to succeed or we'd all die. Agonizing seconds ticked by on the studio clock as I waited for the decision of the New Zenith ministers...