Word: mur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle's own pain was obviously far from unspeakable. Almost cheerfully, he pointed out that many of his losing candidates had been defeated only by the narrowest of margins. Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Mur-ville, for example, came within 235 votes of victory-and Couve had hardly been a dynamic campaigner. All in all, according to De Gaulle's calculations, a shift of 10,000 votes in the right places would have turned 35 Gaullist losers into winners. "That's not seri- ous," he told his Cabinet. "It is a situation that will redress itself...
...Safer's voice, excited yet sure, carried a message of urgency. "This is what the war in Viet Nam is all about," he intoned, as the camera panned over crying women and old men. In his careful solemnity there was an echo of CBS Hero Edward R. Mur row reporting World War II on radio: "This is London...
...started in 1962, when hand some, well-to-do Dr. Robert Boehme (rhymes with Mamie) was brought to trial in Tacoma for the attempted mur der of his wife Dorothy. The state charged Boehme with injecting a near-fatal dose of poison into her veins so that he could be free to marry sensu ous Mary Boehme, his great and good friend, who had previously been mar ried to his brother. Throughout the trial, Wife Dorothy spent most of her time flashing smiles of encouragement at Boehme, who was, in due course, acquitted. Three months later, his wife died...
Eichmann insists he is not a mass mur derer as charged by Prosecutor Gideon Hausner. He describes himself as "a man of average character, with good qualities and many faults." He plays the violin. He adds: "At heart, I am a very sensitive man. I simply cannot look at any suffering without trembling...
...months and these people didn't even have a baby." And, continued Hickenlooper, what about "that farmer who said he was driven from his farm and forced to migrate? He told us that he sold his farm because his wife wanted to move to California." Replied TV Veteran Mur row blandly: "It is not uncommon to have one thing said to the cameras and another later on." Always aggressive in his gripe against the grape. South Carolina's teetotaling Democratic Senator Olin D. Johnston was determined to beat back attempts to raise U.S. diplomats' "representation allowance," otherwise...