Word: ladened
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that moment the candidate's boyish face, drawn in a tight smile, appeared amid the tangle of pipes and levers. Pulling fiercely on his broad nose, he hopped over a conveyer belt laden with chocolate drops, strode quickly to a nearby worker, tapped the elderly lady on the shoulder, executed a brisk mannerly bow, brought forward his cupped right hand, grinned very very hard and blurted: "Howaya, howaya. I'm Governor John A. Volpe, Howaya...
...Corrupted Version." That night, in a speech before university students, Humphrey really put on a show of oratorical fine arts. Now he was the student of political history, invoking the names of political philosophers from centuries past; now, his voice laden with emotion, he was the perfect partisan. Cried he: "Senator Goldwater, a self-styled conservative, has stumbled upon and seized and given currency to a corrupted version of conservatism whose acceptance defies history and the accepted conservative philosophy. A man who says 'My aim is not to pass laws but to repeal them'-that...
With an interviewer from Baldwin-Nelson coming, they decide to act so square that they could pass for cubes. Out goes the cello; in comes a dust-laden TV set. Copies of the Reader's Digest and McCall's are scattered about. "Where'd you get these?" asks Pilgrim in wonderment. "I subscribe to the incinerator," comes the answer...
Another little girl appears on the screen. She is strolling through a pleasant field. She stoops, picks a daisy, starts plucking its petals while counting, in the fashion of children from time immemorial. "One, two, three . . ." A man's doom-laden voice comes in stronger and stronger, finally drowning out the child's words. The man is count ing backward: "Ten, nine, eight . . ." The countdown ends, and the screen erupts in atomic explosion, followed by the voice of Lyndon Baines Johnson, who says somberly: "These are the stakes: to make a world in which...
First, after picking a not-too-friendly legislator to manage the bill on the floor, Fenstemaker wears him down with Bible-belt hectoring: "World's cavin' in all round us; rocket ships blastin' off to the moon; poisonous gas in our environment; sinful goddam nation laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers. My princes are rebels and companions of thieves." Next Fenstemaker prevails on the speaker of the house to move the bill up on the calendar. "He's a reasonable and honorable man," explained the Governor. "All I had to do was threaten to ruin...