Word: organism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often no doubt unhappily) marking the 25th anniversary of the Soviet-Czechoslovak Friendship Treaty, bookstores reported a heavy demand for a satirical poster: under a heading taken from a popular Christmas carol, "We bring you news [from Bethlehem]," five angelic boy carolers are pictured holding newspapers-each the party organ of an invading Warsaw Pact country...
...sensitive nature of the post, and because Nixon labeled Kissinger his instrument for a "complete reorganization and restructuring of the entire White House security planning machinery." If Kissinger and his new boss have their way, that will mean the resurrection of the National Security Council as a major organ of government...
Nixon was brought up in a strict and remarkably devout Quaker home. Each morning at breakfast, he and his four brothers took turns reading Scripture aloud to the family. As a youth, he played the organ and taught Sunday school at the Friends' meeting house in East Whittier, Calif. On Wednesday nights there were prayer meetings, on Thursday choir practice. "Our little community church was the center of our lives," Nixon has recalled. For a time, his mother Hannah hoped that Dick might enter the Friends' ministry...
...were equally adamant in defending the buildup of their fleet in the Mediterranean (see following story). "The Soviet Union is known to be a Black Sea and, hence, Mediterranean power," the government newspaper Izvestia proclaimed, declaring that Soviet ships were in the Mediterranean to stay. In Red Star, the organ of the Soviet Defense Ministry, Vice Admiral Nikolai Smirnov said it was "imperative for the Soviet Union, in the interests of security," to strengthen its fleet. The presence of Soviet ships in the Mediterranean, the admiral wrote, "does not allow the Sixth Fleet to carry out the Pentagon...
...that the Tribune plans to be just another organ of polemics. It wants, instead, to take a reasoned look at the affairs of Harlem and the neighboring Upper West Side, the latter a somewhat dowdy but vital area that embraces a cluster of intellectuals, a substantially Jewish middle class and a smattering of just about every other race and religion. "Unlike most dailies," the Tribune announced, "we will not compete for hard news. Unlike many weeklies, we will be neither a community bulletin board nor a pamphlet for angry manifestations." With a 14-man staff-half black, half white...