Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made against the Democrats by Dick Nixon. In Casper, Wyo., Agnew put a Stetson on backward and talked about wheat prices to sheep and cattle ranchers. On KULR-TV in Billings, Mont., he hinted that the Republicans had a solution to the war, forcing Nixon into a weary "what-Mr.-Agnew-meant-to-say" denial...
Earlier, while traveling in Hawaii, he complained that Americans are now "up so tight that we can't communicate with each other, and our sense of humor is beginning to disappear." Muskie could not let that one pass. "Mr. Agnew tells us that we lack a national sense of humor," Muskie remarked dryly. "I think he is doing his best to restore...
Even Mansfield was less than ardent, though he favored confirmation. It was "unfortunate," he said, that Fortas accepted $15,000 for 18 hours of lecturing this summer at Washington's American University. "One would hope," Mansfield added gently, "that Mr. Fortas no less than any of the other members of the Court would henceforth bear these distinctions in mind." For Mr. Fortas, that advice may have come too late...
...they played with different styles. The Beatles version is the one most of us probably remember of Chuck Berry's "Roll Over Beethoven," or Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got a Hold on Me." Or "Please, Mr. Postman." Or "Act Naturally." They were the first to turn us on to a lot of things we later grew to love for their own sake. But their version was always something special. There was a quality of ironic distance or dual consciousness in their version. It was a sense of the Beatles playing wholeheartedly at the being black, at being Chuck Berry...
...Hoover agent," twice tried unsuccessfully to get him fired. Both Jack and Bobby Kennedy submitted the manuscripts of their first books to him for critical comment. To his secretary, Laura Waltz, his ponderous prose is "notoriously bad." To his former colleagues at the New York Times, he is "Mr. Krock." Says Washington Bureau Chief Tom Wicker, "I wouldn't dream of calling him Arthur...