Word: passion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fords of Grosse Pointe, Mich., the Arthur E. Pews of Philadelphia and (honorarily) the Duke and Duchess of Windsor-pay an initiation fee of $560, annual dues of $280, and may buy a lot for $70,000 or more on which to build a cottage among the hibiscus, bougainvillea, passion flowers and night-blooming jasmine. The golf course is excellent, and the dockage for the family yacht is 14? a foot per day, $9.80 a foot per year...
...with total spuriousness for most of his 82 years. "My father was a bum," says Havemann affectionately. "The best job he ever had was driving a laundry truck." In his skinnier days, however, Father Havemann jockeyed horses and, when he put on too much weight to ride, cultivated a passion for losing money at tracks. Like father, like son. Young Ernie bought his first Daily Racing Form at the tender age of twelve...
...paper. Humes's novels have excesses that mark them recognizably as first and second books, but they are rich with life and intelligence. Underground City, set in France during the Resistance and the early postwar days, is, notably, the only novel in memory that achieves both dignity and passion in dealing with the predicament of the patriot who is not a flag kisser. Men Die, which is concerned with race hatred and other crippling manias, is audaciously and successfully arty. The central incident of the book is an explosion that wrecks a Caribbean naval base. Humes's time...
...this time there did not seem to be much passion in the dispute. Although Majority Leader Mike Mansfield supported Anderson's stand, he declined to throw the Senate into round-the-clock sessions; in this, he was backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who said he did not care to see the Senate become "a chamber of walking coronaries." Sensing defeat, liberal New Jersey Republican Clifford Case, a strong anti-filibuster man, said that a vote would be preferable to an extension of the ritual that is becoming "almost like a minuet." Minnesota's liberal Hubert Humphrey agreed...
...mercurial Bevan after Labor's defeat in the 1951 election, Attlee held on to the leadership and watched the developing struggle between ex-Coal Miner Nye and the middleclass, intellectual Gaitskell, who had never lived in a slum or walked in a picket line. With all the passion and eloquence of his proletarian youth, Bevan raged that Gaitskell was a "desiccated calculating machine." No phrasemaker, Gaitskell did not engage Nye in verbal combat, instead coolly and shrewdly lined up the trade union rank and file behind him. When Attlee finally resigned after the Tory victory in the 1955 election...