Word: shedding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the President throws into his daily work has raised a lot of concern. Dwight Eisenhower recently sent a message urging him to slow down and look after his health. Lady Bird is forever watching his diet; Lyndon, 55 and 6 ft. 3 in., weighs 206 Ibs., and should shed at least ten. At his Texas ranch some weeks ago, his wife ordered chicken for dinner one evening-knowing that it is not one of the President's favorite dishes and that Lyndon probably would not eat too much. At lunch one day last week, Lyndon noticed that...
...Rowse remarked in his masterpiece, The England of Elizabeth, that "Human egoism is the greatest motive force in the world." In his claims for his biography of Shakespeare, Rowse has stretched the greatest motive force to its outermost limits. His work has, he announces, "shed light upon problems hitherto intractable, produced results which might seem incredible...." He has solved, "for the first time and definitely," the riddles of the sonnets, he has established "a firm chronology" for Shakespeare's life, he has brought about "an unhoped-for enrichment of the contemporary content and experience that went into a number...
...point that has long troubled many attorneys: the dubious ethics of the all's-fair-in-war tactics used by many successful trial lawyers. Williams argued that it is unethical to have clients use makeup to present a better appearance for the jury, or for lawyers to horse-shed* witnesses before they testify. "Are we trying to get at the truth or put on a spectacle?" Williams asked...
Meader's act at the time actually had very little Kennedy material in it-only five minutes out of 45-because he was trying to shed his identification with the President and shape a career as a general comedian. Nonetheless, Meader had so thoroughly established himself as the myna bird who sounded like a President that he risked never being accepted as anything else...
...spare British onlookers all possible anguish, Kenyatta had tactfully ordered that the lights be dimmed during the moment the Union Jack was lowered, and then blazed on again as Kenya's flag was raised. The new banner: black for the people, red for the blood that has been shed, and green for the land, with thin white lines inserted between the colors. The white, says Kenyatta, is to ensure that the flag represents all Kenyans...