Word: eves
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...casually stolen the bird. Not knowing what to do with it, they handed it over to Alfred E. Vellucci, Cambridge City Councilman, who nabbed prize television time by announcing to the Boston press that it would be presented back to the Lampoon in the Crimson offices on election eve...
McCarthy's victory confirmed the speculation of those who recalled that the Minnesota Senator had run several percentage points ahead of election-eve polls in Indiana and Nebraska, apparently taking a substantial majority of the undecided vote both times. In this sense, the Oregon outcome was consistent with the first two Kennedy-McCarthy encounters...
...respective positions," notably expressions of hope for an independent and peaceful South Viet Nam. But the North Vietnamese swiftly rejected the overture, declaring: "In fact, our positions are very far apart." So they remained after a final four-hour session at week's end, held on the eve of Ho Chi Minh's 78th birthday...
...Good God," said Lyndon Johnson, quoting George Washington's eve-of-battle prayer, "what brave men must I lose this day?" Adding his own invocation to that of the negotiators in Pans to still the guns, the President last week paid homage to four heroes of Viet Nam in a unique Pentagon ceremony, hanging the star-spangled blue silk ribbon and bronze star of the Medal of Honor around the necks of a soldier, a sailor, a Marine and an Air Force pilot. >Army Specialist Five Charles C. Hagemeister, 21, has the kind of bravery that often prompts Viet...
...onetime functionary of Dictator Rafael Trujillo, Balaguer stops short of being a dictator himself. He not only lacks a dictator's broad powers but believes far more fervently in democracy and the future of his country than in power for power's sake. Last week, on the eve of the municipal elections, Balaguer even referred to his regime as nothing more than a "transitional government." In the Dominican Republic, however, any transition for the better must be considered a major accomplishment...