Word: engrosser
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cooke focuses on minutiae. As he sees it, they tell more about a culture than the big issues that engross most journalists. Reverence for the flag, for instance. Outside of the emerging na tions of Africa, he recently wrote, scarcely any other country shows such a high regard for that symbol. U.S. laws, he was surprised to find, prohibit use of the flag for ornamentation. So when he once looked for a box of candy with a flag on it to send to his mother in Britain, storekeepers regarded him as "some kind of pervert...
...anything to say about it, it will also be one of the hardest-working sessions in memory, for he means to use it as his springboard to the Great Society. Contemplating the President's legislative program, Senator Everett Dirksen remarked wearily that "there would easily be enough to engross the time and the attention not of one but of a number of Congresses...