Word: q
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Q. Mr. President, can you tell us anything about your plans for next week? A. With regard to the convention, I expect to go up later Thursday evening- I don't know what time...
...Q. Mr. President, did I understand that you might not go to Atlantic City...
...Civil War perhaps deserves a nod for trying a different attack. This frolic manages, however, to be unremittingly fast, flip, energetic, and for the most part humorless. Based on a sober historical novel by Jack Schaefer (Shane), the movie attempts to spark laughs by logging the misadventures of Company Q, a detachment of Yankee misfits led by inept Colonel Melvyn Douglas and his wry-smiling lieutenant, Glenn Ford. The boobs under their command include a firebug, a flagpole sitter, a kleptomaniac, a skittish soldier afflicted with an untimely burp, and assorted psychopaths...
...lights blazing all night long, and every other kind of desecration of beautiful Long Island." At nearly every stop across the country, Caldwell parks his rent-a-soapbox and rips off a little speech. In Birmingham the subject is integration, and the speech takes the form of a catechism (Q. "Will desegregation and integration produce a mulatto social system in the United States?" A. "Probably."). In Nacogdoches, Texas, he sounds off on writers' conferences with some not-so-new things to say about the fringe literati who attend them...
...Goldwater volunteers had been going virtually fulltime since March, when they launched "Operation Q," the effort to secure enough qualifying signatures to get Barry's name on the ballot. So determined were the workers that they greatly surpassed the necessary 14,000 signatures on their petitions, came up with more than 50,000 names before noon on the first day of their drive...