Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...This remark brought standing applause and cries of "hear, hear" from the U.S. corporation heads...
Journalists have always taken particular satisfaction in speculating about Nixon-and most of the current Nixon talk is journalistic speculation. But it got some extra impetus through an offhand remark by the senior Republican who, according to those same journalists, for so long wanted to "dump Nixon." Dwight Eisenhower, in a televised interview, spoke of Nixon's chances in the event of a G.O.P. convention stalemate: "Now, if there should be one of those deadlocks, I would think he would be one of the likely persons to be examined and approached, because he is, after all, a very knowledgeable...
...Letting Blood?" One Republican who seemed to see a declaration of war in Nixon's "bloodletting" remark was Goldwater. He called it "one of the most unfortunate statements that has been made lately." Cried he: "It's this type of thing that tends to tear the party apart. Who's letting blood? It certainly isn't me. And I'm not going to be the one who lets blood. One of my chief purposes in life has been to keep this party together. I have been convinced that Nixon meant it when he said repeatedly...
...gestures," said one critic, "his intonations, his pauses at the proper moment, all clearly indicate his belief or disbelief in a witness' testimony." He got into rows with his colleagues too, once said in open court that he hoped another judge would "keep his filthy mouth shut." The remark brought official rebuke for "using a courtroom as a forum for vilification of a fellow jurist...
...greet. The road was lined with small gray shacks of the sort owned by whites and rented at exhorbitant prices to Negroes. As she neared a cracked old structure that had settled dangerously on its western foundation, she stopped suddenly, flipped open the notebook that she carried, entered a remark, and then looked up again in time to wave generously at a Negro who was crossing the road halfway down the block...