Word: foe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...campaign organization and made his opening moves toward party unity. He named a steering committee that included two of the G.O.P.'s most highly regarded tacticians, former National Chairman Leonard Hall and Ohio's State Chairman Ray Bliss. He also phoned his convention foe, Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, arranged a Republican "summit meeting" next week in Hershey, Pa., and invited key Republicans to attend...
Harlem is where Negroes refer to one another as "nigger" and "brother," "spook" and "hardhead," but woe to the white man who uses the same expression. It is where the white man is no longer the "ofay" (pig Latin for foe), but "Mr. Charlie" or "the man," and mostly "whitey," derived from the Black Nationalist talk of "the blue-eyed white devil." It is where a common laborer mutters to himself at a corner bar: "You don't come up to Harlem and whip my head, white man. You can whip me somewhere else. But not here, white...
...monologue fails to offer any new "answers," the world has learned to listen. De Gaulle's latest appearance before the assembled press at the Elysée Palace, his first in six months, was as usual full of imperious generalities, lofty self-justification, and barbs for friend and foe. Since De Gaulle wears history well, and knows it, the occasion also offered some fairly startling historical silhouettes...
...Versois). Poor Claudia is heartbroken, and of course Odile turns out to be a mantrap. At that point the gang is willing to let its leader hang, but good old Claudia lays down her life to save her friend, and at the fade Cartouche sets his face to the foe and prepares to join her in death...
...April 1961, a few days after the Bay of Pigs, the author of these lines entered the oval office of the White House to see his personal friend and political foe, Jack Kennedy. The President had just stepped out for a few minutes. The visitor waited, and decided to sit-in the President's rocking chair. Moments later, Kennedy walked in and, seeing the visitor comfortably ensconced in his chair, broke up laughing. "You think you want this job?" joked Kennedy. Replied Senator Barry Goldwater: "Good...