Word: shirt
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...hall, Kennedy spoke briefly to Jackie Kennedy and to Caroline before retiring to his bedroom. He left behind him a stern injunction: "Don't call any doctors." But the family, worried by his ashen appearance, ignored the order. After the doctor arrived, Joe Kennedy, still wearing a sports shirt and golf shorts, was taken from bed and driven in a private ambulance with motorcycle escort to St. Mary's Hospital, where the chaplain gave him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church...
...village of La Morita, 2,000 shirt-sleeved peasants and their families awaited the Kennedys. The Venezuelan government is building farm homes for these campesinos. The Betancourts and the Kennedys drove up to the project, where 87 units have already been constructed, and in symbolic ceremony, each of the Betancourts and Kennedys presented a land title to a campesino. Then, in a speech translated sentence by sentence, President Kennedy said: "We will be more than good neighbors. We will be partners in building a better life for our peoples." Jacqueline Kennedy also made a speech, but she needed no interpreter...
...grownups never knew. "When I went to school here," recalls History Teacher Schuyler Royce of Andover's Phillips Academy, "the only question was which college you would take your white shoes to. When I got out in 1941, all I needed was a knit tie, a button-down shirt and Daddy's money to get into any college I wanted. These boys know they can't write their own ticket. They're so much more aware...
Then all of a sudden--boom. The floor seemed to be filled with blue shirts, all running one way--toward the Uconn basket. Occasionally a white shirt could be seen among them, defending valiantly--but only occasionally...
Some of the hunters wore the new bright yellow togs, but most sported head-to-boots outfits in traditional red-cap, jacket, shirt, trousers, even suspenders. Pinned between their shoulders was a big red license plate. All were in moods ranging from festive to rambunctious. Said Rancher Bob Lahde, who "takes in" hunters: "You can tell how keyed up these hunters are by the way they eat. First day, they'll take maybe one of my bear-burgers. Then they get a buck, and my wife and I can't get enough food moving to them...