Word: plywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...column after ecstatic column, the Russian press covered the rescue and the landing of the boys in San Francisco, where they got ceremonial plywood keys to the city from Mayor George Christopher (just back from a visit to Moscow), were outfitted in new clothes, filled with Cokes, and taken on a tour. (They proved grateful but reticent heroes, and a bit overwhelmed.) Khrushchev's cables to them were also printed ("We are proud and filled with admiration"), as well as his cable to President Eisenhower ("The gallant conduct of the American seamen is an expression of those friendly relations...
...causes as much furor). Every morning he barges out of his rented town house on California Street in northwest Washington carrying the last night's bundle of homework, hops into the rear seat of a chauffeured, telephone-equipped Government Lincoln and heads down the avenue. In his cherry-plywood-paneled office, he pulls off his jacket and goes to work standing up. Pacing the floor, he rattles his points over the phone (President Eisenhower is "Sir," everybody else "Fellow"), dictates a blistering letter, or officiates at a staff meeting...