Word: idea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa Republican H. R. Gross grouched that he was not going to contribute $5 for an "heiress" he did not know, and Luci gracefully requested that the idea be dropped. Other well-wishers sent the bride enough frilly garters to outfit the Folies-Berg...
...have exacerbated the Labor Party's internal feuds. Fearing massive unemployment, 47 Labor M.P.s signed a protest against Wilson's measures, and it was all Deputy Prime Minister George Brown could do to win the "reluctant acquiescence" of Britain's influential Trades Union Congress to the idea of a voluntary wage freeze...
...measure of the futility of the Ironsi regime that by week's end not even Nigerian diplomats had the slightest idea whether the uprising had been led by the North or the South...
Another Goal. As if echoing that sentiment, the 25,000-member American Trial Lawyers Association last week reversed its previous opposition to the OEO plan as "costly, wasteful and inferior." Meeting in Los Angeles, the association warmly endorsed the idea and offered the aid of all members.* Even more approvingly, the American Bar Association last week urged Congress to double the OEO legal-aid budget to "a minimum" of $52 million. The goal is not only equal justice for the poor, said the A.B.A. It is also urgently needed "respect for law" in the "greatest breeding ground of the criminal...
After Coe recovered from anesthesia, his first words were curses. Explains Neuropsychologist Aaron Smith: "Cuss words express feeling, not an idea. Communicating thoughts is more difficult." Soon Coe was able to communicate rational thoughts in short phrases. Today he still speaks slowly and leaves many sentences unfinished, but he can make himself understood unless he gets too tired...