Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effort to avert a strike against the Chicago & North Western, the U.S.'s third biggest railroad in track mileage. When Goldberg and Wirtz got back to Washington, they hurriedly washed up to get ready for a joint press conference. Goldberg asked Wirtz if he wanted to borrow a clean shirt. "No thanks," cracked Wirtz. "I'd rather try on your shoes...
...While his family went to a nearby lunch counter for a snack, a motherly Negro tried to make the boy more comfortable. Then the five Orrs boarded the North Star, and sat up all night as the coach made seemingly unlimited stops. As they neared Toronto, Jimmy opened his shirt, looked at the itching red spots, and said: "Dad, I think it's chickenpox...
...Santo Stefano. The Panama Portrait is a Madison Avenue Heart of Darkness with a shirt ad as hero. Ben Smith is the fella, a handsome Kansan who forsakes the "smell of failure" at home for the big city and a vast company, Seaways Industries. Smith thinks of himself as a thoughtful sort-there are days on end when he wonders if Seaways is really for him. But when his hero, General Manager James F. X. O'Harragh, picks him for an all-or-nothing assignment to corner the rock lobster market on tiny Santo Stefano, all doubt vanishes...
...associated with the coercive functions of the state." Church magazines as different as the liberal Christian Century and the conservative Christianity Today have backed the court ruling. More support came last week from the big (circ. 1,136,000) Presbyterian Life in an editorial entitled "Keeping Our Shirt On." The regents' prayer, noted the magazine, "was really a rather limited, circumscribed prayer directed to a limited, circumscribed God." In its next session the court is expected to decide whether other religious expressions in school-such as Bible readings and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer-also breach...
...retrieve some documents from his Johannesburg office, Mandela dressed himself as a Zulu janitor in the traditional blue jumper and shorts, stuck huge earrings through his ear lobes, grabbed a broom and walked through the police cordon outside his office. Once inside, he tucked the papers under his shirt and calmly walked...