Word: eve
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bibulous as distinguished from the meteorological sense, December in the U.S. is the wettest month of the year. The weather is usually dismal enough to call for the cup that cheers; but it is Christmas and New Year's Eve, those nationally permissive drinking occasions, that pop the cork and the bung and inspire a steady round of wassails. In a single month, the nation's drinkers buy an eighth part of their annual supply, some of it to give but a good share of it to consume. This year, December's national bill, for spirits alone...
...tiny Leeward island of Anguilla is roaring like the mouse of fiction and screen," the editorial declared, going on to counsel the Anguillians to give up their foolishness and return to the three-island nation of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla spelled out for them by Great Britain on the eve of decolonization. The ad--signed by Ronald Webster, chairman of the Anguilla Island Council, but largely written by Howard Gossage, a San Francisco ad man--promised honorary Anguillian citizenship to Americans who contributed $100 to the fledgling state, and told prospective contributors to send money to "The Anguilla Trust Fund...
...eve of a round-the-world tour last week, George Romney once more referred to his brainwashing gaffe, declaring that his 1965 experience in Viet Nam has put him on his guard, just as a broken bone, once knitted, is "stronger at the break than at any other point." Before a single bonehead gag was born, Romney winged off to Paris, was ignored by De Gaulle, conferred with Foreign Minister Couve de Murville, and then gushed: "I am impressed by the good relationship between the people of France and the U.S. There is a great deal in common...
...common, have been so closely scrutinized. Television networks devoted many a primetime hour to ogling the preliminaries and the gala reception at which 500 guests supped on lobster bar-quettes,* crabmeat bouchees, quiche lorraine and country ham with biscuits-to the accompaniment of California champagne. In a wedding-eve interview, Bridegroom Robb's brother David, 22, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, raised TV watchers' eyebrows by remarking that what Chuck wanted most out of life was money, and that the young Marine social aide used to sell his bubble gum to buddies after removing...
...public elementary and high schools, helped in his father's store, worked one summer as a conductor on the local trolley line. At New York's Jesuit-run Fordham University he was a conscientious but hardly brilliant student, a debater, and an earnest poet. Only on the eve of graduation did he decide to enter the priesthood. Ordained in 1916, he went to Rome as translator for a Boston bishop in 1925, so impressing Pope Pius XI that he was recruited to the staff of the Papal Secretariate of State, the first American priest to serve in that...