Word: knights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Reist was "not the commercial type," Hirst and Geer acted on his suggestion. They formed Blue Knight Enterprises, which, by the middle of the summer, had began a market last of the cigarettes...
...microphone near the sidewalk to catch the unhurried footsteps of Londoners walking calmly to the air-raid shelters. Last week Lon don was calling again, this time to tell Murrow, 56, that Britons will know him as Sir Edward from now on. Queen Elizabeth made him an honorary knight commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his furtherance of Anglo-American understanding. Ed himself was in New York Hospital for another checkup following removal of a cancerous left lung 14 months...
...years as boss of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. But Washington Columnist Joseph Kraft rises to the defense with a thoughtfully reasoned brief. "To critics, Mr. Hoover is the advance guard of the police state," says Kraft in Commentary's February issue. "To boosters, he is the modern knight errant. For better or worse, he is made to cast a shadow larger than life." To Kraft, who sees him in somewhat sharper focus, "Hoover is in the most literal sense the 'G-Man'-the Government man par excellence. He is the supreme example of the successful civil...
...expected him to say yes to everything. The occasion required a vigorous black knight. Many questioners egged him on to rhetoric about white devils; few asked about his program of political action. Most wanted to know about the doctrine of self-defense. Still others asked why he said, "chickens come home to roost" in reference to President Kennedy's assassination. He was a "dancing bear." The audience wanted him to perform--and the code forced him to duel...
...weaponry of Syria's bathtub fleet. But Attassi hardly bolstered the Syrian government's case when he blurted out in court: "I was placed under torture by electricity as soon as I was arrested." Asked for com ment on Hafez' espionage drama, U.S. Ambassador Ridgway B. Knight declared: "I don't intend to get into a spitting match with a skunk"-surely one of the most pungent if least diplomatic remarks ever made by a diplomat...