Word: sandwiched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reckless bravery, brute stamina is acceptable. The idea is to accumulate a staggering number of "events" in the course of a day. A lawyer friend visiting the Robert Kennedys gained favorable attention by participating in five events before breakfast; he had reached 14-from trampoline-jumping to eating a sandwich with sand in it-before the day was over. Astronaut John Glenn piled up favorable mention by bicycle riding, swimming, playing touch football and baseball, falling into the bay while water-skiing with Jackie, and barely ducking a crashing boom after he hesitated for a moment in carrying...
Milty began his local construction operations some two weeks ago when he moved into a clean and comfortable new shop at 35 Boylston Street. At present he is able to fashion 85 different sandwiches, not one of which costs over 55 cents. His boast is his "Famous Mountain High Original Sandwich Creations," one of which -- the 50 cent Roast Beef Dream -- traces its High Originality to the minds of Elsie and Henry Baumann...
...continue. The rest of Milty's specialties are unique in the area: item, the Fresser's Special (55 cents) of corned beef, pastrami and salami on a roll; item, a 50 cent Yagdwurst (which means Polish pressed ham sandwich; item, and one in which Milty takes particular pride, the only French fried onion rings in Harvard (25 cents...
Died. George Charles Montagu, 87, ninth Earl of Sandwich, whose :8th century ancestor, the fourth Earl, is credited with concocting the first sandwich (a slab of beef between two pieces of bread) because he once refused to leave the gaming table for a more conventional repast, recipient in 1956 of the National Pickle Packers Association's annual "Pickle Award" in gratitude for the sandwich's assistance in helping the pickle packers peddle a peck of pickles; in Huntingdon, England...
...with Nixon, said Miller, is that his press relations are bad. During the presidential campaign, Miller claimed, "no one could get within four miles of Nixon." He cited the case of a magazine photographer whose editors asked for "informal shots of the Vice President-taking a snooze, eating a sandwich, sitting with loosened necktie. This photographer was never allowed near Nixon." But later, said Miller, the cameraman spent three days on Jack Kennedy's campaign plane and got all the informal pictures he wanted. Added Miller, unkindly: "If Nixon doesn't wake up and realize he must...