Word: maiden
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...maiden flight over Wichita last week, the new plane made a striking silhouette against the prairie skies. It was like no other private plane in the world...
...Larry O'Brien, special assistant to the President for liaison and personnel. In the office is a card file containing the background of every Senator and Congressman. Among the data are such items as a man's close political friends, college fraternity, his wife's maiden name, his economic and educational milieu-information that has proved invaluable in finding undreamed of ways to reach a man. A tough, candid operator. O'Brien has already talked over the President's program with several congressional delegations, told them that the White House will call Congressmen with good...
...worse. For no more will th' embattled hombres make their peace in the mesa'd West, their smoking armaments put by, than Cary Grant will post him through such feats as Hitchcock doth concoct." Pretty chilling, but De Vries really sets in a little later when a maiden solemnly informs her swain that "It would be terrible to be regarded as a child-bearing machine...
Doctors were optimistic at first, but the melanoma spread to his back. Thin, exhausted and in pain, Dooley checked into a Hong Kong hospital last November, was fitted with a brace ("my Iron Maiden") that extended from his shoulders to his hips. "I am not going to quit," Dooley insisted, with a typical touch of melodrama. "I will continue to guide and lead my hospitals until my back, my brain, my blood and my bones collapse...
...last Terry-Thomas is rewarded with a starring role in a suitably dotty but amiable bit of British nonsense, and he carries it off with his usual weedy charm and blithering idiocy. He is cast as a retired major who shares a flat in Kensington with three maiden ladies (Athene Seyler, Elspeth Duxbury, Hattie Jacques) while together they subside regretfully into "the teatime of life." What to do with themselves? Suddenly one of the dear old things has an inspiration that could lend vast new dimensions to the science of geriatrics: Why not organize a crime syndicate and devote...