Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laws of man and nature, Mr. Cub should be hibernating somewhere, reminiscing about the two successive seasons when he was named the league's Most Valuable Player (1958 and 1959), or the year that he set a major league record for shortstops with a .985 fielding average. He admits to being 38, but instead of slowing down, he just keeps suh-wooooshing along. When Cub Manager Leo Durocher took over the ball club three years ago, he started calling Banks "old grampa" and at one point asked the baseball writers to "knock off that Mr. Cub stuff." Said Durocher...
Though race was never mentioned, Bradley's technique was all too clear: "In every single newspaper photograph, in every single television appearance during this bitter campaign, Mr. Bradley has managed openly and brazenly to look like a Negro...
...nation is now waging 174 wars, including those against "pollution, smog, hunger, smut, poverty, the Vietnamese and middle-aged sag" - and is developing a defeatist attitude because it is losing them all. He claims that "the doves" have even taken over the war on poverty and this means that "Mr. Nixon has clearly given up any hope of winning...
Since then, Renwick has had little time to produce anything but chastity belts. Orders for his belts-decorated with a frilly flower design and diamond-shaped cutouts around the waistband -keep arriving from the U.S., France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. A Mr. Fung of Hong Kong wanted one with a 32-inch waist. A dealer in Italy asked for 150 of them and in Kuwait, Renwick's agent reports that a few sheiks are interested in his wares. "I'd much rather make a weather vane or a fat cow than reproduce something as inherently horrid...
...Mr. Bennett himself -- Harvard's Treasurer -- provided one answer in an interview with the CRIMSON last April...