Word: lapelled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without drifting off in pursuit of better things. Javits also made news later in the week, though for a different reason. Ever the politician, he accepted an accolade as "1966 Father of the Year,"* posed for pictures as Actress Eva Gabor pinned a ribbon betokening the award on his lapel...
...this sort of talk before? Hadn't Herbert Hoover, just a year before the great collapse of 1929, proclaimed: "We shall soon, with the help of God, be within sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation"? In Louisville and Manhattan, bumper stickers and lapel buttons proclaimed: I'M FIGHTING POVERTY. I WORK. Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman complained that the ballyhoo was damaging the U.S. image abroad, averring solemnly that a family in his district had even received a CARE package from worried relatives in Europe. On Ed Sullivan's Sunday night television...
...screens to ask coyly: "Had any lately?" What she wants to know is whether the viewer has had any Chateau Martin champagne, vermouth or wine. Chateau Martin's eight-week-old question is also being asked on radio, bus and subway posters, in magazine ads and on lapel buttons. Crestwood Advertising, Inc., which designed the campaign, credits it with a 48% increase in Chateau Martin sales...
...week, Johnson showed the old hunkered-down, lapel-tugging virtuosity, his hands flying, his words pulsing, his fists mashing the air for emphasis. At an unexpected and impromptu press conference after a Cabinet room ceremony, he twitted the press for predicting trouble over a supplemental bill that had just passed easily: "That was a great issue, and you all had your backgrounders up on the future fall of the Johnson Administration. I sat trembling, waiting for the announcement of that roll call...
Tense Frontiers. Greeting his guests at Nairobi's Embakasi Airport, Jomo looked jaunty with a yellow rose in his lapel, a fly whisk in one hand and a gold-tipped ebony walking stick in the other. But there was reason for concern: almost all of the guests had grievances with at least one of the others. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie and Somalia's Premier Abdirazak Hussein were hardly on the best of terms now that raids and murder had resumed along the frontier they share. Burundi's Premier Leopold Biha kept well clear...