Word: grace
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, just at this hinging point, we--the crowd--responded for the first time in a way that brought us dignity and the right to talk of the Red Sox as "our" team--until our sharp fall from grace after the game. Harrelson was at bat, two men on, no outs. This was the weakest link in the rally, this hapless outfielder from the Kansas City A's who still carried that team's curse of failure. We knew that and took responsibility out of Harrelson's hands...
...created the Press, or perhaps they created us. In any case, they polluted the field with our worst qualities, our inane curiosity and opportunism. They messed about Yastrzemski as if to pull him down. Solid, neatly divided in two equal parts by his black belt, loosening up with grace and some levity, the Great God Yaz seemed impentrable in his excellence. The Press could not touch...
...House and Senate, however, silence was the rule. Indeed, there had been a far greater outcry over Justice William Douglas' successive (albeit intraracial) marriages than over the Smith-Rusk wedding, which, after all, only indirectly involved a high public official and had been handled with notable grace and discretion...
...were being hustled off to the pokey-and in Las Vegas yet. Well, not quite. The Most Reverend and Right Honorable Arthur Michael Ramsey, stopping off for a day en route to an Episcopal conference in Seattle, was merely getting a V.I.P.'s reception, Nevada-style. His Grace drew a crowd of 8,000 businessmen, politicians and highrollers to the Convention Center for a talk on Christian unity. Las Vegas responded with a luncheon for 600, at which the Archbishop was observed guffawing at Comedian Danny Thomas. "Some of the jokes I understood," said His Grace gracefully, "and others...
...armor to dance, taste champagne, guess each other's identities and incidentally raise money for the Venetian artisans still suffering the effects of last November's widespread floods. When the masks came off at 1:30 a.m., the revelers turned out to include: Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, Aristotle Onassis, Gian Carlo Menotti, Paul Getty, Princess Alexandra of Greece, three Princesses Ruspoli, Rose Kennedy, Clare Boothe Luce, Sonny and Marylou Whitney, who wore rhinestones in honor of her recent $780,000 jewel theft, and Richard and Elizabeth Burton, who had dispatched a plane first to Sardinia and then...