Word: rafted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reconvened in January. After the tide of dramatic legislation so ardently enacted in 1965, there seemed little left to do but pass routine bills to fuel the new multitude of Great Society programs. But then the President's State of the Union message launched a whole new raft of legislative proposals. These, together with Congress' penchant for much-bally-hooed hearings such as its Viet Nam and auto safety inquiries, have kept the Hill ahum. One recent day the House alone held 33 committee and subcommittee meetings, more than on any previous day in memory...
...hardly prepared for the crush. Extra telephone lines and fast-transmission Telex machines were jammed into ranger headquarters at Panther Junction to handle press copy, and a car stood ready to rush outgoing material to the airstrip 120 miles away. For Lady Bird's five-hour raft journey through the wild gorges of the Rio Grande, rangers had floated box lunches, soft drinks and coffee, and portable toilets to the sand bar where the party was to stop for lunch. The river, which frequently falls so low that rafts cannot negotiate it, was also up to the occasion...
...raft of scandal sheets that publish their photos have been hit by innumerable lawsuits but seldom hurt by them-awards often amount to no more than a symbolic one franc. Now, however, one newspaper has been ordered to pay $8,000 in damages to the family of the late actor Gerard Philipe -the largest sum yet awarded for photographic invasion of privacy by a newspaper...
...Merrick foresaw the worst: if he did not do something drastic, and do it fast, the advance sale would vanish and Fanny would fold. He did something so drastic that dear old Broadway hasn't been quite the same since. He promptly signed on a raft of new pressagents and launched a promotion campaign three times as vast and ten times as vulgar as anything the theater had ever seen...
...with Ernie Terrell in Chicago. Louisville didn't want him either, nor did Pittsburgh or Bangor, Me. At last the desperate Muslim-backed promoters looked outside the country, only to be turned down in Montreal and its suburb of Verdun. "We'll hold the fight on a raft in the St. Lawrence River," wailed Promoter Robert Arum. Or maybe in a Saigon...