Word: rubbernecker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never did. Settling down to husband his fortune, he raised chickens, sat in his front-porch rocker shelling pecans and rubbernecking at the tourists who came to rubberneck at him. Plain-spoken to the last, he always regretted having given up his Speaker's role for the vice-presidency, which he said "wasn't worth a pitcher of warm spit...
...invitations to appear as a speaker. Last week in Austin, practically on the President's front porch, 8,000 Texas farm laborers and sympathizers campaigning for a $1.25 minimum wage burst into a spontaneous cheer: "Viva Kennedy!" In Boston, a crowd of 5,000 turned out to rubberneck as Bobby and a phalanx of Kennedy kin, including Massachusetts' Senator Teddy, showed up to dedicate the $24 million John Fitzgerald Kennedy Federal Office Building...
...NOWHERE CITY, by Alison Lurie. Because Novelist Lurie can make preposterous characters come alive, her tour of Los Angeles' gaudier unrealities is just-but just-worth the rubberneck fare...
...NOWHERE CITY, by Alison Lurie. Because Novelist Lurie can make preposterous characters come alive-or at least breathe a little-her tour of Los Angeles' gaudier unrealities is just, but just, worth the rubberneck fare...
...Royalty Is Always Punctual. So off stepped Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon to yet another stop in last week's Washington-to-Manhattan round of receptions, rubberneck tours, shopping expeditions, luncheons, cocktail parties, teas, dinner dances and dinners without dances. Though their digestions may have suffered, their smiles were undimmed, the lips stiff and upper throughout...