Word: frolics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...along with the poi came some politicking. The conference chairmanship traditionally rotates between parties, and this time a Republican was due to succeed outgoing Democrat Stephen McNichols of Colorado. Democratic National Chairman John Bailey, on hand for the frolic, passed word that neither of the top contenders, Rockefeller and Oregon's Mark Hatfield, should be considered. Bailey's reasoning: both Rockefeller and Hatfield are possibilities for places on the 1964 Republican national ticket, and Bailey did not want to give either of them any added shine. Democrats instead backed New Hampshire Republican Wesley Powell, who is no national...
...market is terribly high-and it's going higher." So last week predicted J. Eugene Banks of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., reflecting Wall Street's widespread belief that its new bull has hardly begun to frolic, and that the Street is in for a long market rise. Although stocks backed and filled for most of the week, the Street's excitement was kept up by the upsurge in rail shares. Rails broke through their previous high to reach 150.81, thus, according to the Dow theory, "confirming" the signal four weeks ago of the Dow-Jones industrial average...
...author of Harvey has attempted another wistfully whimsical frolic, some further genially wacky escapism. But she has not pulled another rabbit out of her hat or even put enough bees in Tallulah's bonnet. Her sort of nursery-rhyme old crone scampering upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber has in places a nursery-rhyme lilt, but far too often a thin, struggling farce's laboredness. The kinfolk and clubwomen who keep trooping in and out make the struggle even harder. The play has charming moments, but only moments; flashes of bright Harveyesque humor, but only...
...Cannes, skindivers soar around beds of jeweled coral-reds, violets, purples, yellows-in pursuit of sea bass and mullet. In Australia they prowl the caverns of the1,250-mile Great Barrier Reef, or play tag with the gregarious seals that frolic off Carnac Island. Near London, divers happily muddle through the ooze of a dank lake in Black Park...
...gentler times an American political campaign was, in peacetime, something of a summer frolic, decked in bunting and confetti, full of oratorical balloon ascensions, baby-kissing, and free beer for everybody. The outside world learned to forgo any serious business and to watch with amused tolerance for the duration. In the taut days of 1960, the American political campaign is something quite different-a serious debate treating soberly the great issues that will affect the whole of mankind, enacted before the eyes of an anxious world...