Word: gon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vote. One major worry to both Goldwater and Rockefeller in New Hampshire was a hyped-up write-in campaign for Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. Ambassador to South Viet Nam. In Sai gon, Lodge dodged questions about it by claiming that his diplomatic position did not allow him to discuss politics. But he refused to call off the campaign. His eager New Hampshire workers were busily buying television time for a five-minute Lodge campaign film that was made in 1960-and narrated by Dwight Eisenhower. Besides that, Lodge people planned to mail out 94,000 sample ballots this week, showing...
...Fernandes took his don key Pelé with him to town. In the marketplace of Venceslau Guimarâes, a small boy began tormenting Pelé with a stick, and the donkey struck back-killing the boy with a kick in the head. Police Chief Emiliano Gonçalves had the farmer arrested, but Fernandes wept so profusely in his jail cell that Gonçalves changed his mind and locked up the donkey instead. The charge against the animal: murder. Osório Fernandes angrily leveled a charge of his own against the police chief: "He has been anti...
Anti-donkey or not, Chief Gonçalves mulishly insisted that the donkey was dangerous and had to be kept behind bars, despite Farmer Fernandes' pleas that the animal had only kicked in self-defense. Months passed. The other prisoners, being human, had protested that the donkey stank; even worse, it brayed all night. The prison cook complained because he had to prepare special meals for the donkey. The jailer, grumbling that cleaning up the animal's cell had doubled his work, threatened to go on strike unless he got extra...
...brave thrust at sociological jar gon, Professor Alan Simpson, who next year will become president of Vassar College, once transfixed students at Washington University in St. Louis by putting the 23rd Psalm into educanto...
...seemed pretty terrific. News paper headlines bannered the fact that the U.S. was sending 4,000 battle-ready troops into Thailand. New Frontier and Penta gon flacks vied with one another to see who could put out the most stirring state ments about U.S. determination to save Southeast Asia from Communism. White House staffers got to complaining that the Pentagon was leaking news about decisions even before those decisions were made...