Word: shirttails
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessary. Minnesota Congressman Ancher Nelsen, one of the nine whips working the floor for Nixon, had only one complaint: "We got rather hungry. Getting a hot dog?that was the biggest crisis we had." Floor Manager Rogers Morton told reporters: "The only time I got worried was when my shirttail came out and I couldn't get it back...
Never Alone. In the intensive-care unit after the operation, Kennedy was never left alone with the hospital staff. Ethel rested on a cot beside him, held his unfeeling hand, whispered into his now-deaf ear. His sisters, Jean Smith and Pat Lawford, hovered near by. Ted Kennedy, his shirttail flapping, strode back and forth, inspecting medical charts and asking what they meant. Outside on Lucas Street, beneath the fifth-floor window, hundreds of Angelenos gathered for the vigil; crowds were to be with Bobby Kennedy the rest of the week. A local printer rushed out 5,000 orange...
...somewhat more generalized and sanitary connotation. When preceded by the feminine article la, the term connotes messing about or stirring up a carnival. But when used with the masculine article le, the term is more vulgar, denoting one who soils his bed or goes about with a dirty shirttail hanging out. By omitting the article, De Gaulle left his meaning purposefully ambiguous. As a rejoinder to the general, rebellious students and workers have coined a new chant: "La chienlit, c'est lui!" (The one making the mess...
...Cunning Rider. Besides the irksome presence of such minuscule bills, there was always the danger that sloppy language or slippery shirttail riders would go through unnoticed in the rush. Last week a Senate amendment to deny poverty funds to civil rights rioters was passed - but only after its sponsor, Virginia Democrat Harry Byrd Jr., hurriedly rewrote it on the Senate floor because even he was unable to explain what his original wording meant. Oregon's Democratic Senator Wayne Morse cunningly pasted a rider on the higher-education aid bill that, if passed, would grant home rule to the District...
Cliff is a chunky high school dropout whose shirttail flaps in the breeze and whose hair-trigger temper has at one time or another 1) brought him an official reprimand from the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association and 2) cost him a place on the U.S. Davis Cup team. Psychologists would probably trace Cliff's troubles back to his formative years-between twelve and 14-when he played with his sister and "she beat me every time." Says Cliff: "She used to beat me so often that she didn't even want to play me any more...