Word: protegee
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Early in the movie Lawrence Harvey, a talent agent who pushes strippers and rock and roll singers, reveals the truth to his ambitious but faithful mistress: "This is no playground, it's a jungle," (the camera focusses on his half-made bed), "and it eats up little girls like you...
"I have brought no rescue squad, I am not running as a protege," continued Kennedy in his latest bread-and-butter speech for committed crowds. He had stressed the same points in New York last wekend.
Maggie's most righteous indignation (and her finest hour in public life) was reserved for the late Joe McCarthy, in her famous "Declaration of Conscience" speech. It was the first major address of Freshman Smith, and the first outcry in the Senate against McCarthy's campaign of smear...
Nixon, despite the fact that the convention has undeniably given him command over the Republicans, still has to remember that it was under the President's respectable wing that he flourished for nearly eight years. If he hopes to conserve the votes of those who know him as Ike's...
With a small trade victory safely in hand (the ending of Austrian oil shipments as war reparations in 1964, a year earlier than scheduled, and the beginning of talks toward a five-year trade pact), Raab saw Nikita off at the airport with obvious relief. With Khrushchev safely back home...