Word: passions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political week-like in a big political year. Pageantry ran high, and so did passion. Big names were on the line; big decisions were made, at the polls and in convention halls...
...just what this is all about?" If Gross doesn't like the explanation-as in the case of a bill for a historic memorial in Texas in which the $115,000 appropriation did not even cover the cost of the land-Gross declares loudly: No! With nonpartisan passion, Gross crusades against spending. When Kennedy was inaugurated, Gross protested that an Army chauffeur was driving Frank Sinatra and Peter Lawford around Washington...
...father, Sir John Reeves Ellerman, rose from stock clerk to owner of a vast shipping fortune. By shrewd investment, her brother John-a skittery recluse whose sole passion is the study of rodent anatomy-has become Britain's richest...
...sang that Depression ditty 30 years ago could not be more unlike the prosperous youngsters who sing it nowadays at New York City's private Fieldston School. Yet they are linked in thought and feeling through their history teacher, John A. Scott, 46, who gives his students a passion for possessing the past as if it were the present...
...Walt Kelly's weakness as a satirist; he is always shading off into whimsy and gentleness. With humorous exceptions like Mole and Deacon, or Wiley Catt and Sarcophagus MaCabre, the swamp creatures want only to live quietly and be kind, to play, and to indulge in their uniaersal passion for telling each other the oldest hoariest American chestnuts. (Even the Deacon succumbs to the weakness: Mole sombrely admonishes him, "Remember forewarned is forearmed," and Deacon sniggers "I suppose an Octopus is twice as well off?" As they walk away, Mole snorts with disgust and Deacon is tee-heeing to himself...