Word: heel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...idle talk to the effect that Goldwater did not really want to run and that President Kennedy's death would give him a graceful way to stay out, his announcement was no surprise. As his family watched near by, Barry leaned against a lectern to favor his right heel, which had recently been operated on for a calcium deposit. He read his formal statement more slowly and clearly than usual. He had, he said, decided to run "because I have not heard from any announced Republican candidate a declaration of conscience or of political position that could possibly offer...
Nobody Loves an Albatross has as its hero-heel a man who can kiss his own reflection in a mirror and really mean it. Nat Bentley is a television writer-producer in Hollywood, but his most inspired production is his ebulliently maleficent self. He is an imp of distilled evil. He is a triple-tongued double dealer, a glib Vesuvius of fantasy and falsehood, a perpetual-emotion machine with nary an honest feeling...
Prophetically, Moro had once tried to join the Socialist Party but was turned down as being "too Catholic." A devout churchgoer who attends Mass daily, he was born in Lecce in the heel of Italy's boot, studied law at the University of Bari, at 24 began teaching. Entering Parliament in 1946, the newcomer was nicknamed by his colleagues "The Quaker" because of his dour outlook and austere habits. Through sheer diligence, Moro became Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs in 1948, received his own ministry (Justice) in 1955. However, his speeches as a politician sounded as if he were...
...other European chemical makers, its profits fell from $23.9 million to $21.6 million in 1962 despite a sales rise of 6.6%. The company was hard pressed to pay its debts and, to make matters worse, the cost of building its new petrochemical plant at Brindisi on Italy's heel overran its $160 million estimate by almost 50%. The setback was enough to topple fast-running Managing Director Piero Giustiniani, the driving force behind Montecatini's expansion, and leave full command in the hands of the more conservative chairman, Count Carlo Faina, 69. Faina, a papal count who claims...
Losers, by and large, tend to be weepers. And weepers tend to be bores. But George Lisle-Spruce, the down-at-heel non-hero of British Novelist Scott's newest book, is neither. He watches himself sinking for what may be the last time with a detached compassion that is as refreshing as it is rare in an age much given to voluble self-pity...