Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans seem to repudiate stiff-backed reporters who blandly mouth the words, but on the other hand have all the time in the world to listen to a shirt-sleeved next-door neighbor like Cronkite. It would be interesting to see him some night speaking into an old carbon mike from a rickety desk, being televised from an old television camera of dubious condition, and reading from copy that is so red-penciled it's hardly legible. The bets are down that he could still get more across to his news-thirsty viewers than anybody else...
...from Hong Kong, stand side by side with gun shops that sell everything from matchbox-sized pistols to M-16 automatic rifles. Manila's private citizenry owns more weapons (365,000) than the entire military and police forces, and it is a rare Filipino whose frilly barong tagalog shirt does not bulge with hardware. Nightclubs, bars, and even the Supreme Court mount signs reading: "Check Your Firearms Before Entering." No self-respecting lawless Filipino would think of complying...
...Desert just outside of town, a blinding sandstorm that nearly ripped Botswana's new black-white-and-blue flag from the pole before it could be tied down. As fireworks illuminated the swirling sand clouds overhead, a tribal witch doctor swept back his cockerel headdress, tucked his baboonskin shirt between his knees, and flashed a mossy grin. "There will be rain," he predicted. "Everyone will...
...Here," of course, was an important qualification. Massachusetts politics are still at a stage that would have alarmed turn-of-the-century muck-rakers. Any politician worth his shirt in this state gets into either house of Congress as fast as he can and leaves local business to a poor set of political hacks. And unenlightened government breeds as well as preys on an unenlightened electorate...
...their most flamboyant representative and most clamorous public relations man. His primary goal is to create a new Negro self-image, based not on white middleclass stereotypes, but on the Negro's African heritage. When I went in to see him, he was wearing a green buba--a long shirt of African origin--speaking into the telephone in Swahili...