Word: halloween
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There was Nixon, in one of his infrequent campaign swings, confidently assuring a friendly crowd in Huntington, W. Va., that the remaining obstacles to a peace settlement would soon be overcome. And there was McGovern, darting about in a plane festooned with Halloween black and orange crepe paper, first casting doubt on the peace rumors, then gracefully if a little grimly saying that he hoped they were finally true. He argued that peace could have been achieved four years ago, that the antiwar movement deserved the credit for forcing the President to conciliate...
...apparent attempt to duplicate the performance put on at the Republican National Convention, a delegation of Harvard-Radcliffe Nixon supporters have been invited to attend a Halloween Republican fund-raising dinner at the Boston Armory. Schuck said he expected a sizable number of Boston and Cambridge area students supporting the President to attend...
...weeks ago New York newspapers played up what looked like a Halloween-party picture in June. It showed a shapely young woman who was wearing the headdress of a ghost costume and a revolver tucked in her belt. The lady was an undercover agent for the New York Police Department, testifying before a crime committee. She claimed that a narcotics indictment based on her work had been thrown out by the D.A. because it fingered one of his personal friends...
...dosed to play on the national holidays. There are only three of them you know, Halloween, New Year's and the Fourth of July. Man, we get into some really weird stuff--Wooly Bully and shit like that...
...less a person than an argument. Most adults, the book suggests, are losers, and most children feel the lash of a loser's fury a hundred times a day. To make the point, Author Grant makes Lucia's life a masochistic nightmare in a gallery of Halloween horribles. Her mother is a festering grievance, her father an intellectual wimp, her aunts and uncles high-church lobsters of menacing respectability...