Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...positive virtues, is subject to being cozened, flimflammed and taken into camp." More damaging yet, the Detroit News, long one of the Michigan Governor's strongest supporters, announced in a lead editorial that it can no longer back him for the G.O.P. nomination and suggested that Romney quit the race in favor of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a man "who knows what he believes...
...went on to become Governor of Kansas and Republican candidate for President in 1936. Laughing fit to bust britches, Landon tossed out a bagful of prickly pears as he celebrated his 80th birthday in Topeka, including a couple for today's Republicans: "They've got to quit kicking labor in the pants; they've got to quit kicking farmers in the pants." As for the notion that he had somehow turned leftist, Landon snorted: "What was the old Bull Moose keynote? 'Pass prosperity around.' What's the difference between that and the welfare state...
Died. Mohamed ben Laden, 53, Saudi Arabian construction king who could neither read nor write but whose computer-like memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...
Though he now spends 95% of his time on the business end, Gordy got where he is today mainly because he wanted to be a songwriter. Son of a Georgia-born plasterer, he grew up in Detroit slums, quit school in the eleventh grade because he was interested only in music and boxing. As a professional featherweight, he won ten of 14 bouts, seven on knockouts, but got discouraged because he "never fought anybody worthwhile." After Army service, he opened a record shop and went broke, but continued writing and recording songs at his own expense. In 1959, Way Over...
...below stairs, all is ill. One by one the servants quit the mansion in fear of something they never name. Only the butler is left to serve the shambles of a meal. Midnight comes and goes, but no guest makes a move to leave. At 4 a.m., before the horrified host, the guests loosen their jackets, gowns and coiffures and abruptly bivouac on the floor. The next morning they discover that somehow they cannot leave the room. Days go by. Their amusement becomes annoyance, then terror. Like miners entombed in a cave-in, they first cry out, then slowly sink...