Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio was allowed within, but millions of people throughout the U.S. kept a sort of vigil while the couple knelt inside the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, under the gaze of a huge mosaic of a stern Christ in red robes, and vowed to each other: With this ring I marry you and pledge to you my ever faithful love...
...will be a three-ring affair in every sense. Pat will wear one ring, but Luci will get two diamond-studded bands, one to go on each side of her engagement ring. Instead of one bridal bouquet there will be two, one for Luci to throw and one for her to lay-at her request-at the foot of a statue of St. Agatha, a patron saint of nurses. Lady Bird Johnson, who was married on the day she gave her first unequivocal yes, by a pastor she had never met, with a $2.50 ring hastily bought at Sears, Roebuck...
Algernon & Nellie. Eventually, of course, newsmen caught on, but Luci's new steady rated little attention from the press until October. At First Friday Mass, Pat proposed and was accepted. Luci received a ring made from Pat's Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity pin, which she has never worn in public. By the end of the month, headlines predicting their marriage bounced around the world. The President was at the L.B.J. ranch, recuperating from his gall-bladder operation, when Pat and Luci flew there on Oct. 29-presumably to obtain his permission to marry. It was widely surmised...
...from Uncle Tony Taylor in Texas, a set of six silver syllabub cups that had belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa Republican H. R. Gross grouched that he was not going to contribute $5 for an "heiress" he did not know...
Cracked Cricoid. Fortnight ago, dug up from Arlington National Cemetery, the colonel's corpse was also autopsied, with equally startling results: the cricoid cartilage, a ring around the larynx below the Adam's apple, had been cracked in two places. The doctors' conclusion: "strangulation...