Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...done behind the scenes until, in another crisis last July, he stepped in to fill the vacant office of White House press secretary. Thus, it was not until the most recent emergency, the President's gall-bladder operation, that Moyers' smooth, owlish, utterly earnest face finally became familiar on the nation's TV screens. Day after day, Americans watched in fascination as Moyers read the complex, meticulously detailed summaries of President Johnson's operation and convalescence...
...next 20 minutes Teddy repeated his familiar dithyramb to the Kennedys' longtime political handyman. Swallowing heavily, Senator Kennedy, 33, came close to tears as he traced Frank Morrissey's career back half a century to the days when he was one of twelve children in a family so poor that their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs their father made." Chastising the American Bar Association and other professional groups that opposed Morrissey's nomination to the federal bench-they said he was the least qualified candidate in memory-Kennedy charged that their objections were rooted...
...heel"-its murky financial practices-there were hints that in coming weeks it would also be looking into the more lurid aspects of K.K.K. imperialism. Dragon Jones was questioned in vain about cross burnings and racist handbills that have been distributed in North Carolina. Kornegay took refuge in the familiar four amendments when confronted with a newspaper story quoting him as advocating "mass killings in Selma...
...hours before every sunrise, he tiptoes out of the house, climbs a rickety bamboo ladder to his rooftop observation platform, built from driftwood, and aims his homemade telescope toward the sky. He has come to consider the stars old, familiar friends. It was only a month ago that he focused on the constellation Hydra, near whose tail he had spotted his first comet. Suddenly he spotted an unfamiliar glow. "It shone," says Ikeya, "like a street lamp on a misty night." All his checks confirmed what he could hardly believe: he had found another comet...
Wise Guy. Berenson's anecdotes were always redoubtable, included the familiar Wilde story: "Having very clearly failed to meet some commitment, Oscar telegraphed: T cannot come. Lie follows.' " His aphorisms were provocative. "The first in a flock is still a sheep...