Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...suburbs for an hour's chat with Pundit Walter Lippmann. Next night in Manhattan two policemen knocked on his hotel door to ask if he would care for a midnight snack. Getting no answer, they went inside, found only a slightly mussed bed, a discarded Kennedy shirt; Jack had slipped away to visit friends. The following afternoon, with the connivance of the Secret Serv ice, Kennedy adeptly eluded the press to go on a Christmas shopping excursion to Tiffany's and Sulka...
...breeding patron named Heinrich Himmler. Across from the butcher shop at No. 49 Schelling-strasse, Heinrich Hoffman kept a photographic shop where a frequent visitor was a pale, mustached man named Adolf Hitler. One day when Butcher Strauss caught his son-aged five-handing out pamphlets that some brown shirt had given him, he gave the boy a thrashing right there in the Schellingstrasse. "That," says Franz Josef Strauss, "was my first experience in politics...
Since touch players usually wear nothing more than bluejeans, a T shirt and sneakers, the blocking is often restricted to the line of scrimmage, and in most games no one is allowed to risk destruction by rushing the kicker. When blocking is allowed downfield. the touch variety of football can be nearly as rugged as tackle. The championship intramural game last month at Massachusetts' Brandeis University (which has a 12-team league) produced three bloody noses and one shoulder separation...
...hour day. She was one of several million U.S. migratory farmers who earn an average of only $900 and whose situation is self-perpetuating; only one in 5,000 of their children finishes high school. Said Edward R. Murrow, roaming a field in a short-sleeved sports shirt and quoting one farmer, "We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them...
Gerald Durrell once awakened in pain to find a squirrel assiduously stuffing a peanut in his ear. He has crawled into a cave to lasso a python. At various times, chimpanzees have commandeered his bed and bath, mongooses have suckled maternally under his shirt, and baby rodents have waited impatiently for him to tuck the 3 a.m. hot-water bottle under their tiny feet. Animals come close to being Durrell's best friends, and as the zoologist brother of Novelist Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) Durrell, he writes about them with style, verve and humor...