Word: haled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louisiana's Democratic Congressman Hale Boggs had a complaint about the New Frontier, and he aired it to the whole country in a TV interview. Every time he had been invited to the White House for breakfast, he said, all they ever served was "tasteless" Yankee-style waffles and scrambled eggs-never any real Louisiana cooking. Why, they didn't even put any chicory in the coffee or supply Tabasco sauce for the eggs...
Winston Churchill, hale and hearty as ever, celebrates his third birthday of the year from the French Riviera. He notes with pleasure that the "Western Alliance of English-speaking and other sorts of peoples" remains firm. De Gaulle rushes to the Riviera and slaps Churchill's face with a white glove. A new strain in the Alliance develops. Dean Ford, receiving the news in the middle of a Faculty meeting on granting Ph.D.'s to Advanced Standing undergraduates, chuckles, and leaves immediately for France. "What a lark," he tells reporters at the airport...
...magnolia tree that Andy Jackson planted near the back door. Pushinka, a pooch who came as a present from Nikita Khrushchev, has had a hard time of it: he had a nervous breakdown, was shipped off to Walter Reed Hospital for treatment, but is back now. and is apparently hale and hearty...
...owns a hefty 12%, astonished the islands by endorsing Inouye. Inouye won by better than 2 to 1, carrying with him Democrat John A. Burns, 53, former territorial delegate to the U.S. Congress, over Republican Governor William F. Quinn. Among the other winners in a Democratic sweep: Mrs. Helena Hale, 44, a niece of Dr. Ralph Bunche, who became Hawaii County chairman and the first woman to hold a top public office in the islands since Queen Liliuokalani...
Essentially, this foursome does not slaughter sacred cows but slyly milks them for irreverent merriment. The irreverence extends to God, Shakespeare, Harold Macmillan, nuclear defense, bombs A-through-H. international relations, race relations, the Battle of Britain, the royal family, hale and hollow clergymen, logical positivism, concert singers and pianists, capital punishment, and buyers of pornographic books. British dithering and deadpanning account for as many laughs in these skits as the lines themselves, but plenty of verbal darts...