Word: finests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...occasion, from the Administration viewpoint, was none other than Republican Senate Leader Everett Dirksen, who brushed aside charges by conservative Republicans that the compromise amounted to a "surrender" to the President. In an impassioned argument (Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore called it "one of the finest speeches ever delivered in the Senate"), Dirksen declared: "With all the fever and flames of controversy upon every firmament at this good hour ... I will not charge my conscience with any act or deed which would contribute to the foundering of the United Nations, because I do not know...
...Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the sequence is one of the comic highpoints of the evening. The man responsible: Italian-born Tenor Alessio de Paolis (pronounced: Pow-o-lees), 64, who in a quarter-century at the Met has sung some 50 secondary roles and emerged as the finest character actor in opera...
...Either way-playing it rough or smooth-Eddie had more than enough skill to stay in front. Last week, when he finally decided to retire at 46, Eddie Arcaro was still a long length ahead of the field. In 31 years hunched over the shoulders of America's finest thoroughbreds, he had brought home $30,039,543 in prize money - more cash than has ever been won by any jockey in history...
...hour and a half with Mrs. Frondizi. Speaking Italian (the language used at home by her Italian-descended family), they spoke of many things, from the impact of various Argentine politicians on her husband to a recipe for pasticcio di maccheroni (both agreed it is one of the finest dishes in North Italian cuisine). Bias-hill, who has covered newsbeats from Panmunjom to Madrid, followed the trail of other leading characters in the drama, at one point found himself telephoning a militant Peronist from the office of a militant anti-Peronist...
...dived into the mottled blue-green Aegean, and when she came up, all dripping and skin-soaked, the sea had yielded its finest vision since Botticelli painted Aphrodite on her shell...