Word: nest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Land-rich Heiress Lady Bird Johnson, 48, who was already buying radio stations when her Vice President husband was just another new boy in Congress, was still feathering the L.B.J. nest. Having picked up KRGV-AM-TV in Weslaco, Texas, for a $245,000 song a few years back, she managed to unload it for a rhapsodic...
...long it will last, I don't know." About ten months, as it turned out, for by last week, Tuesday (who was born Susan on a Thursday less than 18 years ago) had flown her mother's Hollywood Hills coop, settled into her own nine-room nest in Bel Air, complete with built-in hifi, patio and doll house...
What was surprising was that Harrison was the hand-picked candidate of aging Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd, 74, and the rumormongers were saying that the political nest, feathered so faithfully by Byrd over three decades, was falling apart. All of Byrd's oldtime cronies had either died or retired; the party was still scarred by a split over the methods of combating school integration; population was shifting away from Byrd's rural strongholds. The campaign itself was a bit fuzzy, since both candidates are solidly conservative. Stephens, a former Byrd disciple, had even written to the Senator...
Christ or Caesar. As Theologian Barth strode in, wearing his usual rumpled summer suit without a tie, his shock of grey hair was its customary bird's nest. Barely acknowledging the thunderous ovation that greeted him, he began his lecture on ethics where he had left off the day before, on the phrase of the Lord's Prayer: "Thy kingdom come." Christians, he said, should act not according to rigid principles, but only according to what their faith tells them is God's will in Jesus Christ. "Christians should be free," he said, "to give an attenuated...
...from Kennedy. If he feels he has to clear his moves with the American people, he's wrong. There isn't time, and the situation is too complex." Said a Miami science teacher: "It's time for Kennedy to sort out the bad eggs from that nest of eggheads he's brought to Washington and show the world we're tough. They'll respect us for it." Said a Florida banker: "Look, every time we really lay it on the line we've stopped the Communists. If we tell them they...