Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...James Buchanan called the presidency "a crown of thorns," and Herbert Hoover pronounced it "a hair shirt." Lyndon Johnson spoke in sepulchral tones of "the awesome burden." There is an article of faith, enshrined in the national mythology, that the leader of the most powerful country on earth must hold the world's most onerous and agonizing job. Knowing how hard the President is working not only reassures Americans, it inspires some in a small way to carry on their own more or less demanding tasks...
...Matter of Time. For all the progress, there is serious doubt about the ability of ARVN to stand on its own. A Vietnamese who spent four years in uniform and now practices law in Saigon predicted glumly: "They will not hold without the Americans standing behind them. They will collapse, unit by unit. I predict that you will see entire units deserting and going over to the enemy...
...tween the monied and working classes. The byword of that campaign, one of the countless phrases that passed from De Gaulle's lips and into the consciousness of all France, was participation. It soon came to mean everything from worker representation on management boards to reducing the hold of small-town notables on local governments by the creation of new regional councils. France's reply, of course, was the non vote in the referendum that forced De Gaulle's exit. With this astounding rebuke from middle-class France to De Gaulle still fresh in his mind...
...seemed an odd place to hold a trial, but what was the judge to do when the defense vigorously contended that his client's guilt or innocence could only be properly assessed at the scene of the alleged crime? So off they trooped -judge, jury, counsel, bailiff and all -to Sacramento's Pink Pussy Kat Tavern, where Go-Go Dancer Susanne Haines, charged with indecent exposure, performed eight numbers. For four of them, she wore Exhibit J, a pair of transparent red panties; in the remaining four, she wore only her gold sandals for the full topless-bottomless...
...only men who used to carry hand bags were medieval couriers, New Guinea natives, mailmen, doctors, photographers and Truman Capote. These days, with trousers slim and pocketless and Ed wardian jackets cut to hold no more than the wearer, men are finding it ever more difficult to make room for even a credit card. Billfolds, eyeglasses and loose change? Forget them. Unless, of course, a fellow could get away with carrying a handbag...