Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must rise to the defense of John Paul Jones. He did not equal Catherine the Great in lack of morals. In today's order of enthroned sex he would hardly be considered out of line. Catherine, on the other hand, was a real original. Jones gave the U.S. its first traditions of victory at sea when they were badly needed. The fact that he did not come from gentility, but instead rose the hard way through determination and an aggressive personality, earned him the jealousy of the Establishment. It was for this that Jones's detractors scorned...
...would cause a qualitative change in the war. It would probably force Lyndon Johnson to mobilize the reserves, call up the National Guard, increase the draft, and put the economy on a full war footing-all unpleasant options in an election year. Withholding the troops, on the other hand, could force the U.S. to abandon for good the tactics of flexibility and mobility that long kept the enemy off balance, and shift instead to a static, enclave-style stance...
Thanks to some of the most elaborate security measures in memory, there were no crowds on hand to greet Lyndon Johnson last week as a six-car procession bore him down Stemmons Freeway on his first visit to Dallas since Nov. 22, 1963. At the Texas School Book Depository, on his route, shades masked the sixth-floor window from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired the bullets that killed John F. Kennedy. As his aquamarine limousine passed within 200 yards of the building, the President also seemed determined to curtain his memories of that terrible day and spot. With Daughter Luci...
...Henry Lewis, whose contribution to the musical world may be generously dismissed as pathetic. Maestro Lewis knows a few tricks of the trade: he understands how to keep the beat, he can make the orchestra start and stop together, and he never lets the baton fall out of his hand...
Prentice Claflin, as the puckish lush Ivan the Knife, swaggers, slobbers, and leers risibly. Hotiana's Jo (Peter Gilbert) on the other hand maintains the stony-faced good humor of a vacuum cleaner salesman reciting the merits of a Hoover...