Word: shiver
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ripping off Patterson's sheet should help the cause of his opponent, George Wallace, stormy 39-year-old circuit judge who only threatens to toss FBI agents into the jug if they come in his district investigating civil rights cases. But rare was the Southerner who did not shiver at the new high stakes in next week's runoff. "The election of John Patterson will be interpreted by the Klan as a major victory," warned Greensboro Watchman Editor Hamner Cobbs, Antiviolence White Citizens' Councilman. "In that event, for the next four years the escutcheon of Alabama will...
When he puts his mind to it, President Eisenhower can make a rousing partisan speech with the best of them. But in his day-to-day dealings, Ike is so coolly detached from GOPartisanship that the party bosses shiver. Last week their teeth chattered at this piece of cool detachment during the presidential news conference...
...care what I say to the press," Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton, 45, said to the press as she disembarked in Manhattan. "You used to frighten me. I used to shiver and shake . . . and usually I would say the wrong thing." Unwittingly illustrating her point, she added: "It's most unfortunate that I can't travel with an enchanting young man without all this talk starting!" The enchanting young man: sleek, suave Philip Van Rensselaer, 30, a onetime Manhattan model, aspiring novelist, unwealthy descendant of an old New Amsterdam family. Bolstering reports that the pair have spent...
...century, when the continent was turned into a British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with a happy ending...
...America. His student-priests can use the church organization as an ear to the ground that no secret police force can match. When chances of success are reasonably safe, they speak out. In 93% Catholic Latin America, it is a plan of action that should make the sturdiest strongman shiver...