Word: scraps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his heart attack and his ileitis surgery, President Eisenhower set a precedent in the 1956 election campaign by frankly discussing the state of his health. Last week the Democrats picked up "the health issue" and were playing hard politics with it among themselves. Jack Kennedy began the intramural scrap by declaring that the presidency demands "the strength and health and vigor of ... young men." Supporters of Lyndon Johnson leaped to the conclusion that Kennedy was making a not-so-subtle allusion to L.B.J.'s 1955 heart attack. "Citizens-for-Johnson" Director John B. Connally countercharged that Kennedy secretly...
...entered the war, a Navy officer called on Swirbul to tell him the plant would have to expand. Swirbul pulled out his blueprints. "We are," he said. The Navy man offered him help on getting steel priorities. Replied Swirbul: "I've got steel." He had bought up the scrap when Manhattan's Second Avenue El was razed...
...almost killed by malaria and by Communist rebels. He came back to the U.S. in 1938 to preach of the peril of Japanese expansion, made 1,400 speeches in two years urging the U.S. to stop sending war supplies to the Japanese. "I spent my time taking American scrap out of Chinese men women and children," he told House and Senate hearings...
...summit a watershed in Nikita Khrushchev's regime? Had he seized on the U-2 to scrap his policy of rapprochement with the U.S. while loudly blaming the U.S. for its failure? It seemed so. Apparently, Nikita Khrushchev was abandoning his detente policy as a ploy that had failed, and reverting to the old Stalinist policy of toughness...
...chief gauge: "Finding the kid who looks stronger on incentive, who has a real motive." Recalls Dudley: "We moved around the table, shuffling papers. We moved more and more slowly." It took two days to eliminate 50 of 200 candidates for 150 places. "We have to look for every scrap of information we can get. We've turned down kids who were absolutely terrific, kids who could have walked in here three years ago. We would have gone on our hands and knees to get them...