Word: gangways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After the race we went down to the gangway where the runners were, to see them," recounted Hoffman. "Carlos had run with an OPHR button, but Smith had not, so he asked for one. I gave him Axthelm's and then (Peter) Norman, the Australian who finished second, asked for one to wear. I gave him mine...
Yachts, yachts, yachts. New York's Senator Jacob Javits, 61, scampered up the gangway of what he thought was the Honey Fitz outward bound for U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach's floating dinner party for the Senate Judiciary Committee. "Isn't that just like Lyndon?" thought Javits. "If there is a party somewhere in town, he'll be there." For his part, L.B.J. must have pondered whether it was just like Jack Javits to be crashing a presidential party for foreign diplomats aboard the Secretary of the Navy's yacht Sequoia. As both official craft...
...reputation as a novelist, never having written a novel before. Connelly is the man who wrote The Green Pastures, an unforgettable delight that opened on Broadway 35 years ago, ran for 640 performances there and 1,002 more on the road. Its Negro cast spoke in outrageous dialect: "Gangway for de Lawd!" Black angels held fish fries in Heaven and dispensed 10? seegars to newcomers. It might jar contemporary liberals, but Pastures in its day had all the impact of a Negro spiritual; it won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for drama...
...laid bricks, traveled widely, and wrote an average of a million words a year. Later, during the dismal era when Hitler and Mussolini were rising and Britain shuttered its windows to the world, Churchill returned to the House to rum ble bitter warnings from his seat below the Tory gangway. He was unheeded, but never unheard...
...polio victims, all youngsters, surrounding him and eventually inundating him in a water-polo game at Warm Springs. And there is a delightful illustration of Roosevelt's jaunty sense of perquisite as he is being piped aboard a light cruiser. He stands importantly at the head of the gangway in his capacity as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, noting his own flag, designed by him, flying above the bridge. He is obviously using the warship as the most agreeable means he can think of to journey up to his vacation retreat at Campobello...