Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dispute flared into the open during a campaign broadcast when Furcolo showed up late and drew the verbal wrath of Kennedy. Unfortunately for both men, several reporters overheard the exchange and gave it wide coverage in the press...
Although Gibbons served in the state legislature for over 10 years--including two as Speaker of the House--he has not held an elective office for close to two years. Coupled with his late start, this has presented him with a real obstacle--getting himself and his position known to the electorate. In a year characterized by public indifference, this is an almost impossible task...
...this state. Although he refused to vote against the St. Lawrence Seaway, Kennedy introduced a bill supporting a higher U.S. tariff on fish. His support of the jury-trial amendment was received favorably in the South, but not in Northern liberal strongholds. His stand against McCarthyism, moreover, came too late in the game to be counted as a display of anything but opportunism...
Rolls-Royces and Bentleys jammed London's narrow St. George Street one night last week, unloaded enough celebrities to make a smash Covent Garden opening night. Their objective: Sotheby's, the staid auction house where seven impressionist paintings from the collection of the late banker Jakob Goldschmidt were going under the hammer...
...points on the Dow-Jones industrial average. Not since President Eisenhower's heart attack in September 1955 had the market seen such heavy trading. As 5,110,000 shares changed hands, the tape fell behind seven times, once as much as 15 minutes, for the greatest number of late tapes since the Exchange began to count them in 1940. Wednesday the market tumbled further, and industrials dropped 5.58 in heavy trading...