Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harsh facts of the matter are that we have gone soft-physically, mentally, spiritually soft," said Democratic Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy last week, restating a warning woven into his speeches since September. "We are in danger of losing our will to fight, to sacrifice, to endure. The slow corrosion of luxury is already beginning to show." Bejeweled and tuxedoed Hollywood Democrats nodded solemnly. As he introduced Campaigner Kennedy, California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown was attuned to the issue. Asked he: "Shall we allow a chromium-plated materialism to be the principal apparent goal of our national life...
...Adlai Stevenson. In the pleasantly chaotic informality of Stevenson's home, the President and Mrs. Touré escaped for the first time the stiffness of state visit protocol. Stevenson's lone maid bustled about getting food and drink ready while the Touré party inspected the Halloween jack-o'-lanterns which leered in through the windows from the dark and rain outside. (Stevenson had carved some of them himself at breakfast time.) The conversation wandered amiably from such subjects as Touré's speaking style to the relationship between George Sand and Chopin...
Columbus. Cocky, voluble Democrat Maynard E. ("Jack") Sensenbrenner, 57, campaigned for his fourth term in the typical give-'em-hell, revivalistic style that he calls "spizzerinctum." Typical spizzerinctum: "When you come to the end of the road, what you and I want to hear is the Great Scoutmaster reaching down the hand of comradeship and saying 'Come on up higher. You did a swell job down there on earth . . .' " By the time all the spizzerincta were spizzed out, Mayor Sensenbrenner was out of office. Winner, to everybody's surprise but his own, was lackluster Wallace Ralston...
...causes are historical, emotional, economic and political. They go back to the turn of the century, when President Theodore Roosevelt became convinced that the U.S. must build a canal through the section of the isthmus then controlled by Colombia ("I do not think that the Bogotá lot of jack rabbits should be allowed permanently to bar one of the future highways of civilization"). Sounded out by Philippe Bunau-Varilla, a Frenchman and chief engineer in Ferdinand de Lesseps' unsuccessful earlier attempt to build a Panama Canal. President Roosevelt gave tacit support to a Panamanian revolution against Colombia...
...Hess, owner of a department store in Allentown, Pa., said that at least four leading newspaper columnists had been paid $1,000 each by his store for making "good will" visits. The newsmen: Hearst Headline Service's Columnist Bob Considine, New York Journal-American's TV Critic Jack O'Brian, the San Francisco Chronicle's Stanton Delaplane, and Associated Press Columnist Hal Boyle...