Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the joint session of Congress, Borman urged continued support of the space program beyond the moon landing. "Exploration is really the essence of human spirit," he said, "and I hope that we never forget that." In a lighter vein, he described the Christmas Eve reading from Genesis and a particularly "historic" accomplishment: "We got that good Roman Catholic Bill Anders to read from the King James version." Then, looking down at the Supreme Court Justices seated in the House chamber, Borman had an afterthought. "But now that I see the gentlemen in the front...
...Order of Merit is the most coveted nonpolitical honor to which a Briton can aspire. Membership is restricted to 24 British subjects and is granted directly by the Crown. That honor was fittingly bestowed last week on Novelist-Humanist E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) on the eve of his 90th birthday. The sage celebrated birthday and royal gift quietly with friends, then returned to King's College, Cambridge, where he has lived as an Honorary Fellow since 1946. Age has not dulled his gentle wit. Asked if he would not some day want his death...
Although newsmen picked up that brochure on their way into Miramar last Christmas Eve, it was obvious that what they were coming to see would be different from the normal homecomings. The 82 Americans who had been in North Korea's prisons for about a year were returning. Men at the base had worked hard, all night, to give Miramar the red-carpet trappings of a heroic celebration. The crewmen's families were flown to San Diego and "Welcome Home" signs were up everywhere. But beneath the frenetic preparations was the sobering realization that there was something inglorious about...
...plight of the Pueblo had also become a symbol for all that is tawdry and cruel in the human spirit. On a Christmas Eve when men were making their first try for the moon, the circumstances of the crew's release quenched any euphoria about changed human nature. The depressing implications of a diplomatic world where pre-denied confessions are used and accepted were as great as the humanitarian cheer over the crew's release...
...year-old lad, who becomes the ardent wooer of the half-smitten, half-reluctant Julie. Julie's jovially addled mother. Glenda Farrell, thinks the boy is hanging around in order to court Julie's flaming mod daughter Gretchen Corbett, who is almost 18 and as old as Eve. From here on, as in all French farces, the doors take over: who comes through which door when triggers the laughs...