Word: shindig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saratoga Vichy at black-tie parties. Sousaphones harrumphed, fireworks whiz-banged, and chicken sizzled to a crunchy golden brown. Welterweight Champion Emile Griffith was signed for a nontitle fight; Arnold Palmer and Gary Player were booked for an exhibition golf match. All in all, just the sort of shindig that would have delighted John Morrissey-the man who started the whole bawdy binge a century...
...Minister Macmillan at a table in London's imposing Warwick House-Roy Thomson of the Sunday Times, Cecil Harmsworth King of the Daily Mirror, Lord Rothermere of the Daily Mail, and the guest of honor, crusty, combative Lord Beaverbrook of the Daily Express, whose 83rd birthday prompted the shindig. "I felt that this was an occasion on which Fleet Street could forget its animosities," said Rothermere, who arranged the affair. "But I assure you, they'll be resumed tomorrow." Said the Beaver: "I have destroyed completely the foolish maxim that the good die young." "Trouble with me," Horsewoman...
...TIME, Feb. 23). Attacking that reply as rude and destructive, Khrushchev repeated his invitation in sharper terms, only to be turned down by Kennedy again (although Macmillan reportedly urged him to accept). Meanwhile. President de Gaulle replied to K., ignoring the 18-member summit as far too big a shindig but proposing a more exclusive four-power parley (including France) on nuclear arms. West Germany's Konrad Adenauer, who fears having the Berlin question dragged into disarmament negotiations, suggested a different kind of four-power conference, one that would deal only with the Berlin question...
...clutch of Algerian rebel leaders and gave their regime de facto recognition. He put a figurative arm around everyone in sight, from Nehru to Sukarno, and whirled into and out of receptions given by half a dozen small countries. His most bewildering display was at a big shindig in the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion, where Khrushchev greeted an astonished Dag Hammarskjold with an affectionate bear hug. Explaining his antic behavior to a crony, Hungary's ill-starred Janos Kadar, Khrushchev said: "In the Caucasus Mountains they have a custom-while a man is under your roof...
...good: it gave me a lot of extra hours with him." In the days that followed, Sidey went with Humphrey to Seattle, Spokane, Salt Lake City, Alaska, Chicago, Milwaukee and New York. Last weekend, after Sidey watched Humphrey in action at a major Democratic shindig in Washington, Candidate Humphrey drew aside Sidey's wife Anne, confided: "Your husband has been probing me like a dentist's deep drill...