Word: enjoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before any changes, global or minuscule, would be effected, before that first night's sleep under the nation's most august roof, the Nixons?and the Republicans?had the traditional celebrations to enjoy. At an estimated cost of $2.3 million, the highest in history (borne by the paying guests and the Washington business community), the festivities that started over the weekend with receptions, luncheons and a concert at Constitution Hall, reached a crescendo Monday night with six balls around Washington, at each of which the Nixons were to appear. G.O.P. bashes are traditionally more sedate than Democratic wingdings...
Broad and Deep. The U.S., said Johnson, continues to enjoy an unequalled economic boom. "Our prosperity is broad and deep," he said. "It's brought record profits, the highest in our history, record wages. Our gross national product has grown more in the last five years than in any other period in our nation's history." The G.N.P. was $589,200,000,000 when Johnson took office; for calendar 1968 it is $861 billion. Unexpectedly, he also announced that the U.S. has achieved an international balance of payments surplus for the first time since 1957, which should...
...have been able to combine stability with ordered progress." Since he had thought for so long before answering, I was a little surprised by the vacuity of his observations, and I began to feel a little silly for nodding so seriously and writing it all down. Nixon seemed to enjoy this kind of reflection, however, and he talked on about progress and order, tapping occasionally on my arm to emphasize his points. As the plane landed, we shook hands and everyone went out into the rain...
...Know Me, Al baseball stories. As soon as she could get the magazine away from him, Mom settled comfortably with a mystery serial by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which inevitably began, "Had I but known. . ." The kids giggled at Little Lulu's cartoon antics. And of course everybody could enjoy the latest Scattergood Baines episode or grin wryly at the gas-station attendant on the cover - absentmindedly ogling a pretty woman driver while the gas tank he has filled overflows...
...Left-handed golf clubs can be found, but usually they must be specially ordered; there are also left-handed ice-hockey sticks and baseball mitts. Sports, as it happens, is one of the few areas where the southpaw has even mild advantages. Port-siding boxers and tennis players generally enjoy at least a mild advantage over a right-handed...