Word: organize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peak of his incredible career in the 19205, Brinkley owned three yachts (one of which was 150 feet long and shipped a pipe organ), the most powerful radio station on earth, quantities of snazzy real estate, diamonds large enough to be used for fish-line sinkers, and any number of imaginatively colored limousines. In 1930 he decided, a couple of months before Election Day, to run for the governorship of Kansas (he promised a lake in each county), and his write-in campaign might well have succeeded had not the Republican and Democratic ballot counters joined hands against...
...internal organ which, in every red-blooded Charlestonian, beats quicker when the band strikes up Dixie...
...health declining, Adams put aside the fife, the piccolo, the mouth organ and the penny whistle he invariably brought with him to social occasions, and entered the Lynwood Nursing Home in uptown Manhattan. There he died last week at 78, of arteriosclerosis. Some years earlier he had parodied Henley's Invictus...
...human brain is usually thought of as a single organ, and when it is running smoothly, that is the overall effect. But the brain is actually a bundle of many structures, weirdly shaped,*and put together in such a complex tangle that a simple cutaway model gives a poor impression of the whole. And only in the age of tranquilizers has medical science begun to learn how different drugs affect individual parts of the brain. In Philadelphia last week, physicians at the annual meeting of the American Academy of General Practice were fascinated by a 3-ft. model showing...
Sand Hog & Cowboy. Harris was a bullying bantam of a man (barely 5 ft. 5 in. without his 2-in. elevator heels) who had great gifts, a natural swagger, and a voice variously compared to a Russian choir, the organ at Westminster Abbey and the rustling leaves of a brass artichoke. Born to enchant and embarrass, bewitch and betray, seduce and swindle a whole Who's Who of famous friends. Harris was never forgotten by those who met him-and rarely forgiven...