Word: marching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...March 31, the tide of opposition to his policies and personality led Lyndon Johnson to renounce another term as President and call for a partial bombing halt over North Viet Nam. On October 31, President Johnson ordered a total suspension of aerial attacks on the North. Yet by year's end the haggling still droned on in Paris, and the bloodshed continued on the battlefields...
...turn a human into a Globolink within 24 hours. Though the Globolinks are immune to man's weapons, it turns out that they are allergic to the sound of music. After a number of close encounters, they are defeated by a band of schoolchildren singing their school victory march...
Investment bankers can always use men who know their way around Washington. Lazard's newcomers have additional qualifications. Smith, 69, was a commercial aviation pioneer and chairman of American Airlines until his Cabinet appointment last March. He will be particularly valuable to Lazard in working with U.S. airlines. They will require huge amounts of capital to finance their forthcoming jumbo jets and supersonic transports and will spend about $9 billion on new equipment in the next two years alone. Deming, 56, who oversaw international monetary affairs at the Treasury, will probably help on foreign loans and the other international...
...York Stock Exchange, the belwether Dow-Jones industrial aver age advanced strongly after President Johnson announced on March 31 that he would not run for re-election and that he was making new overtures to end the Viet Nam war. The average sagged in August but soon rebounded in what brokers called "Nixon rallies." At year's end, the index was approaching its historic peak of 995.15, set in February...
...crowd goes wild. The band breaks into a jubilant, drum-thumping march. The loser, a shave-headed Negro, is led from the ring, while speaking ruefully with a reporter. The winner, a white man, is paraded about on the shoulders of the cheering crowd. One gloved hand mechanically extended, he stares ahead, his face a bloody mask of idiocy...