Word: pippin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Adams. it was their third loss by one touchdown, after losing two heart-breakers, one on a had snap from center and another on an intercepted pass. "But we try hard." commented Adams's John Pippin...
...inamorata, "Childie" McNaught, is a red-cheeked pippin of a girl (Susannah York) with a mind that has stopped and a body that will not quit. Their relationship, on the skids before the film begins, collapses utterly when George learns that she is to be written out of the program. The bearer of the sad tidings is a venomous BBC executive, Mercy Croft (Coral Browne), who doesn't give Childie a second look-she is too busy with the first. As with George, deception is the key to character. Childie belies her name-she has abandoned the illegitimate child...
...Watkins' vision, the singer (Paul Jones) is a commodity to be leased to all takers, by hour, day or week for the purpose of manipulating a gullible public. When the country is burdened with an apple surplus, the Agriculture Ministry hires the singer to munch a choice pippin on the telly; soon, everybody's awash in applesauce. The clergy wants to push God? Jones, in a mod getup vaguely suggesting the Blood of the Lamb, sings Jesus songs to a screaming multitude. Eventually he gets a kind of religion himself. To a crowd of dignitaries assembled...
...years of his reign he had extended his empire across all Europe. With a kind of ecumenical zeal, he had made Christians out of Saxons, Serbs and Slavs, and with paternal zeal, he had made kings out of both his sons-Louis the Pious in Aquitaine, Pippin in Italy. He died at 71, in 814. but his power was so immense that the full century that followed still bears his name...
...interests and pleases me. Though it is centered on Senator Harry Flood Byrd, it is of interest to note that the middle name Evelyn, appearing in every generation since the second, comes from the beautiful and accomplished daughter of William Byrd II [1674-1744] of Westover, himself a royal pippin on the family apple tree...