Word: newsman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bernadette Devlin, newly elected to the British Parliament, dismisses him as "just another squire." A student worker in civil rights grumbled that Chichester-Clark was "a hell of a name to paint on a banner." But the new man promises to provide reporters with choice copy. When a U.S. newsman asked if the recent riots were bad for tourism, Chichester-Clark reportedly replied: "I don't see why they should be. Anyway, why would an American tourist even in the best of times want to visit Northern Ireland...
...dinner is part of a series of small dinner-discussions sponsored by the Ford Foundation. Earlier in the year, TV newsman Mike Wallace and historian Robert Leckey met with students at Lowell House. Seamus P. Malin organized today's meeting...
JOHN BRYANT fought through the fuzz of last night's sleeping pill as the 7 a.m. newsman, activated by the clock-radio, flicked through the details of yesterday's muggings, liquor-store holdups and sniper attacks. John groped for the light switch-and inadvertently brushed against the "panic button" on the $700 Tel-Guard alarm console connected to his telephone. Obediently, the system silently dialed the operator and automatically began repeating a recorded message: "Emergency at 250 Lincoln Street. Emergency at 250 Lincoln Street...
...talk speak to us. A Colonel Patton cracks a hideous, somehow innocent grin and remarks that our boys are a pretty good bunch of killers. Soon we see the killers themselves, hefty, half-nude bodies frolicking on a Vietnamese beach. "What could this beach be missing," asks the curious newsman. "American girls!" comes the choral reply. "But there are beautiful girls all over the beach," protests the newsman. "They're gooks, you know (giggles), slanted eyes and tiny tits...
...filling process has been slow. There are more than 300 slots at the level of Assistant Secretary or above in the twelve Cabinet departments, and ten days before inauguration only a dozen had been filled. No one is seriously worried, however. As Nixon Spokesman Ronald Ziegler told a doubting newsman last week, "We will be able to run the Government...