Word: matter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night off," he announces, "I'll take the wife and daughter out to dinner." He finds a pay telephone and is about to dial when he notices that a reporter is watching him. "You're the one from Washington, aren't you? What's the matter, the President of the United States doesn't do things this way?" Then he gets through to Marie and tells her not to cook dinner, he'll take her and Marierose out to eat in New Rochelle...
...Senate is a cave of winds redecorated as a 19th century gentlemen's club. No matter what wrenching changes the nation has undergone, the Senate retains its lacquered snuffboxes. Among the more insistent traditions has been the conservative leadership of the Republican Party. In the past 20 years, the post has been held by such stalwarts of the right as Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry, Ohio's Robert A. Taft and California's William F. Knowland...
...Tampering. Though Thang has served as president of the North Viet Nam-U.S.S.R. Friendship Association and has been awarded the Order of Lenin and the Stalin Peace Prize, he is not expected to tamper with Hanoi's delicate relations with the Soviet Union and China. For that matter, he will probably be allowed to tamper with very little. To avert a bruising struggle for the succession, the contenders have quite deliberately removed the presidency from the arena. Until North Viet Nam's power vacuum is filled, "Uncle Ton," as Thang is sometimes called, is expected...
...source of all this friendliness was the encounter sessions. Everybody attended three a day. They sat in a circle for hours scrutinizing each other. They asked mean, menacing questions like, "Why are you being such a phony, Janet?" They aired sentiments like, "Ann, I love you no matter how s-y you are." They cried and constantly embraced one another for saying something that was especially hard to say. The faculty members had to participate in the same way-be completely frank about how they saw themselves in life, about their personal backgrounds, divorces and problems with their wives...
...House passed in August would make such interest partially taxable for many individual investors. Banks, which normally buy 70% to 80% of all municipal bonds, would continue to collect tax-free interest, but their officers fear that if the bill is finally enacted it will be only a matter of time before that exemption is limited, too. The slowdown in municipal-bond sales has produced something close to a revolt among governors, mayors and county officials. Several of them appeared before the Senate Finance Committee last week to denounce all proposals to tax municipal-bond interest...