Word: seat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennedy debacle became a topic of more interest in much of Washington and elsewhere in the country than man's landing on the moon. Americans in Saigon discussed the case more than they did the war. Politicians began weighing the practical repercussions: What of his Senate seat? The party's future? One Republican National Committee official even noted that Kennedy's value as a Democratic fund raiser had been destroyed...
...this point, the statement that Kennedy gave to the police and the accounting that he gave to the public seemed to diverge. In the first version, he said that on returning to the cottage he climbed into the back seat of a car and asked someone at the party to take him back to Edgartown. How he finally managed to get to Edgartown he did not relate. In the second explanation, he said that when he reached the cottage, he talked to Gargan and Paul Markham, a former U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, and took them back to the bridge. Both...
...brief time within the submerged vehicle, giving the girl moments of life. If a bubble formed, it would have been in the car's rear, which was higher in the water than the heavy front end. Mary Jo's body was, in fact, found in the back seat, although she presumably had been riding in front next to Kennedy...
...only one or two missteps, he served ably. When the 91st Congress assembled in January, he unseated Louisiana's bombastic Russell Long as assistant majority leader. He was a beneficiary, of course, of the grace of being a Kennedy. Without that, he would probably never have won his Senate seat in the first place, and he certainly would never have been considered, at his age and level of experience, a serious presidential contender. Yet he was well-liked in the Senate, was deferential to his elders; he played by the rules and did his homework. If he was far less...
...They have pay phones just like we do, phone booths, except that you don't have to put in a dime; you just pick up the phone and use it. They have free major league baseball, too. The guy who likes baseball most comes earliest and gets the best seat in the house. What About The Urban-Rural Inequality...