Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some were men in the prime of health. Others were bent with age, and several were missing arms or legs. Some swung along on crutches; others came in wheelchairs. Some were plainly prosperous, while others wore shiny blue serge or open shirt collars. But they had one thing in common: all wore blue ribbons around their necks from which hung the bronze, star-shaped Medal of Honor...
...common stamp was indelible on him, whether he was campaigning in Sangamon County, wearing a calico shirt and old straw hat, with six inches of blue socks showing from beneath his pants, or whether he stood at a White House reception, his hands enormous in white gloves that as often as not burst under some diplomat's hand clasp. And yet Lincoln always had a sense of being different and apart. John Hay, his longtime presidential secretary, wrote that it was "absurd to call him a modest...
Staying at Home. It is just possible that Castro bought a shirt and tie at the men's wear counter, for next day he suddenly emerged all dressed up for the official May Day march-past through Red Square. He even sported a blue beret, which seemed increasingly confining as, for five solid hours, under a warm spring sun, he stood at Khrushchev's side on the rampart over Lenin's tomb. It went on and on; 250,000 athletes, workers and schoolchildren paraded by. Only during the ten-minute parade of familiar military hardware, featuring medium...
...Rozelle so tough? A player who gets into the habit of betting, he reasoned, can also get into the habit of losing his shirt-and fall into the clutches of professional gamblers. Suppose a player was known to be a regular bettor, and then word got out that he had failed to bet on one game. How come? Was something up? Last but not least, gambling on football games is illegal in every state but one-and there are no pro teams in Nevada...
...bathtub imitating Winston Churchill. He ventures a diplomatic brush, but his upper lip produces merely a promising smear. He sports an expensive cutaway, but the more he tries to be elegant the more he looks like a stevedore at his daughter's wedding. Through the stuffed shirt peeps the T shirt, and at his most ambassadorial moments Marlon is unmistakably a man who longs to scratch. The customers will probably feel the same. It's the natural reaction to a lousy picture...