Word: interruption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure to pay a libel judgment to a Harlem widow. Although the faithful overwhelmingly endorsed him yet again in a special election last April to fill the House seat vacated by his exclusion, Powell remained ensconced on Bimini with his former secretary Corinne Huff. Two weeks ago, he did interrupt his endless summer long enough to spirit himself into Washington for an hour's testimony before a federal grand jury looking into his possible misdeeds...
...violence for twelve hours; only when it became obvious that the situation was out of control did the news go out. Reporters went out of their way to interview bewildered, law-abiding Negroes whose homes and property had been destroyed. The three TV stations in Cincinnati agreed not to interrupt regular programs with alarmist bulletins. "We did not put on television anything which we felt would inflame an incident," says Sam Johnston, general manager of WKRC-TV. "We gave no vocal platform to any of the agitators...
...site picked for the Hirshhorn Museum is actually on a secondary axis laid out on the Mall 50 years ago, and Bunshaft emphasizes this by projecting across the Mall a 500-ft.-long reflecting pool surrounded by broad walkways for outdoor sculpture displays. But he had no desire to interrupt the two-mile vista that stretches from the Capitol past the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial-a vista Bunshaft considers "one of the greatest in all architecture." Instead, he has sunk the pool and sculpture area 7 ft. below the Mall level. So vast are distances in official Washington...
Dick is the straight man, Tom is the bumbling buffoon. Between skits, they sing fractured folk songs. In the middle of Michael, Row the Boat Ashore, for example, Tom will interrupt with a snigger: "Hey, Michael, you'd better get that boat back; you'll lose your deposit." Or, eyes rolling like lopsided marbles, stuttering as though his tongue were mired in sludge, he will launch a monologue that begins anywhere and goes nowhere. When Dick glowers disapprovingly, Tom bawls like a seven-year-old: "Mom always liked you best...
...When I spoke with him last week he had just finished a Boston talk show a few days before and a New York talk show the night before. He was just finishing up a speech he would give two days later to a consumers' group. And he had to interrupt our interview for ten minutes to tape a segment for a New York radio station...