Word: miltonic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end doctors said that Ike had suffered no further pains and was in "excellent spirits." When he was not dozing in his oxygen tent, he sat up in bed reading westerns or chatting cheerfully with John, Mamie and his brother Milton about "everything from education to Black Angus cattle." It had been exactly a decade, Eisenhower recalled on Veterans' Day, since he returned to the White House after suffering his first heart attack in Denver...
...league Republicans-Dick Nixon, Nelson Rocke feller, Dwight Eisenhower-who might have campaigned for him in New York. As his running mates, Lindsay picked an Irish Catholic, University Professor Timothy W. Costello who is chairman of the Liberal Party, for city council president and for comptroller, Milton Mollen, a Brooklyn Jew who had been with the Democratic administration of retiring Mayor Robert Wagner...
...many wreaths into the nether world of American funeral customs that it occasionally scores a dead ringer. That chrome-plated butterball, Liberace, is hilariously on key as a casket salesman, peddling such optional extras as the standard-eternal or perpetual-eternal flames ("The standard burns only during visiting hours"). Milton Berle and Margaret Leighton enliven one interlude as a married pair squabbling over the remains of their dear departed, a dog named Arthur. Jonathan Winters succeeds outrageously as the mastermind of Whispering Glades, who wants to "get those stiffs off my property" and transform his real estate into a haven...
With McGrath's help, the college committee members raised another $73,000, contributed $27,000 of their own. They took that news to Johns Hopkins University President Milton Eisenhower. He told them: "I'm calling my brother tonight and telling him to give you the green light." By this time, Ike was ready to encourage the project. Skinner and Rosenkrans got the Presbyterian Synod of New York to approve a loose affiliation with the school, largely for the sake of fund raising. A 265-acre alfalfa field along Lake Cayuga was selected as the site, architects were hired...
...election this month that he even predicted his percentage of the vote: 72%. For a while, in fact, it looked as if Allen would get 100%. Until the last filing day for the election, he was the only mayoralty candidate. Then, five minutes before the deadline, in jumped Milton M. ("Muggsy") Smith, 63, an Atlanta insurance salesman who made a name during 16 years in the state legislature trying to repeal every segregation law in Georgia. But Muggsy, who had run against Allen in 1961, never had a chance...