Word: hickey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRODIGAL RAKE-MEMOIRS OF WILLIAM HICKEY (452 pp.)-edited by Peter Quennell-Dutton...
This merry memoir by a hard-shirking 18th century wrongdoer proves that the wicked and slothful do not always suffer for their sins. William Hickey, the son of a prosperous London attorney, gathered rosebuds by the armload for the greater part of his life, suffered no ill effects except those that could be cured by doses of mercury, and showed no inclination either to repent or boast when cooling blood gave him the leisure to write it all down...
...chess champion. Lisa Lane, 24, alibied, "I felt homesick, and besides that, I am in love." With whom? Mooned she mysteriously: "I am not engaged. I am just in love." But next day the once-divorced Lisa admitted that her white knight was American Weekly Reporter Neil Hickey (who had written a smitten profile of her two years ago), added, "I am discussing only my own feelings and cannot speak for him." Hickey's feelings: "The story is ridiculous...
...Democrats: Nevada's Howard W. Cannon, Wyoming's J. J. Hickey, Florida's George Smathers, Georgia's Herman Talmadge, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond. Republicans: Colorado's Gordon Allott. New Hampshire's Styles Bridges, Maryland's John Marshall Butler, Hawaii's Hiram Fong, Kansas' Andrew Schoeppel, Pennsylvania's Hugh Scott, Texas' John Tower...
...Wyoming, after the death of Republican Keith Thomson, who had just been elected to the U.S. Senate, Wyoming's Democratic Governor John Joseph Hickey resigned from his own office, was appointed by the state's Democratic secretary of state Jack Gage (who succeeded him as Governor) to serve in Thomson's stead for a Senate term of two years. "Thus," said Lawrence, "the majority of the people of Wyoming, who elected a Republican to the United States Senate, have been deprived of a Senator of their own party and even of the chance to elect one until...