Word: ear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riots, just before Caracas, "Tad Szulc. Latin American correspondent for the New York Times, ran alongside the car saying, 'Good going, Mr. Vice President, good going. " In Moscow, immediately after his harangue with Khrushchev, "Ernie Barcella the correspondent for United Press International, came alongside and whispered in my ear, 'Good going, Mr. Vice President.'" After a speech in New York: "The audience gave me a standing ovation. As I sat down, Governor Dewey grasped my hand and said: 'That was a terrific speech...
...their country cousins turn a deaf ear to their pleas, the cities have another course, which is the bogey of every state legislator who opposes the creation of a federal Department of Urban Affairs. The cities may be forced to bypass the state governments, which show little interest in their unique problems, and go directly to Washington for financial help. If that day comes, the states may lose their control over the big cities, thus eroding the U.S. system of federal-state government. In New York, there is the old proposition of seceding from Albany and joining the Union...
...past, the problem was confusingly divided between Colonial Secretary Reginald Maudling, responsible for African territories that retain colonial status (Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland) and generally considered an ally by African nationalists, and Commonwealth Secretary Duncan Sandys, who is responsible for self-governing territories (Southern Rhodesia) and has the ear of Welensky's white supremacists. It was obviously sound to end this two-way pull by putting Butler in charge, even though Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell loudly denounced it as a ''nonsensical gesture." While not a political maneuver, Macmillan's move inevitably enhanced the political prospects...
...Rome were becoming more and more vain, their earrings and other jewelry more and more costly. "Probably," said Seneca, "these mad fools of women believe their husbands would not be sufficiently tormented were they not to wear two or three chunks of the hereditary patrimony hanging from each ear." The women doubtless deserved the scolding, but their excess of vanity has proved a boon for posterity. For the past few months, thousands of Italians have been delighting in an exhibition of 1,000 Italian gold and silver art objects spanning the centuries from...
...their mild eroticism heavily disguised in battered olde type. Votaries of contemporary vulgarity got their kicks mainly in the titles of Eros' assortment of original stuff. An article on "Erotomania," for example, turned out to be a scholarly study of lovesickness by Psychologist Theodor (Listening with the Third Ear) Reik...