Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tough-talking hombre with a shock of silver-white hair and a mustache to match, Bill McGaw, 51, does not usually concern himself with current events. He likes to roam the West, tracking down such legends as the saga of the one-woman bawdyhouse in Columbus, N. Mex. Along the way he collects Western relics, including the stagecoach that may have carried President Polk to his inauguration. In July 1963 he learned that the New Mexico Press Association had held a dinner in honor of defeated' California Congressman John Rousselot, who is presently the public relations director...
...more, went into the pages of Papa Hemingway, Hotchner's story of the novelist's final years, which Random House plans to publish in April. The book bristles with intimate details of Hemingway's slow deterioration. On reading the galleys, Mary says, she suffered "a traumatic shock." In a letter to Random House Board Chairman Bennett Cerf, she accused Hotchner of "shameless penetration into my private life and the usurpation of it for money." She demanded a long list of changes in the book. The author and the publisher agreed to many of them, but Hotchner flatly...
...when it was dull. When TV nearly killed the movies, she helped rescue them with exposés and exclusives, chitchat and charm; to 30 million readers, Hedda Hopper was Celluloid City with hats. Last week, when the Scold and the Sphinx died-within hours of each other -the shock came not with the news, but with the realization that the nonstop columnist, at 75, was five years older than the ancient silent-film veteran...
...worldwide Catholic association. Although the society began in Spain, the founder moved its headquarters to Rome, precisely to emphasize the worldwide nature of the association. Finally, although a search for a one-word capsule summary of a typical member is probably impossible, I would not choose "shock trooper." Perhaps "salt tablet" would come closer. The chief thing that members have in common is a dedication to serve God and to serve the world through their professional work-to be "the salt of the earth," as Christ used the term...
...Shock and sorrow ensued, for everyone had hoped that De Gaulle's recent close squeeze at the polls would have chastened French policy. But Paris was still its old imperious self. The Five denounced the French demands and recessed the talks until Jan. 28, when a showdown seemed inevitable...