Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven prisoners, lodged in an upstairs cell block of the Dallas County Courthouse, overpowered a guard and started a dramatic getaway. One of them, brandishing a "pistol" carved out of soap and blackened with shoe polish, pushed his way into the crowded second-floor corridor of the courthouse...
...discussion after Khrushchev had concluded a most noisy diatribe, which he climaxed by removing his shoe and beating it upon the podium, Harold Macmillan looked up blandly into the TV cameras. "Would someone mind translating the gentleman's remarks" he murmurred. How caustic! How arid! How British! Now, imagine Red Skelton impersonating Macmillan. No more snap and crackle than yesterday's milk-logged Rice Krispies...
...Louis University, Johnson told a crowd of 7,000 that he had been aware of St. Louis' importance "since I wore my first pair of Buster Brown shoes," a reference to the city's shoe manufacturing complex, and announced that he had appointed the St. Louis Cardinals' retired Star Stan Musial to be the new director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness. Musial, 43, succeeds Oklahoma Football Coach Charles B. ("Bud") Wilkinson, who resigned to run for the U.S. Senate from Oklahoma as a Republican...
Next to good grades, the factories list "energy" and "personality" as the main criteria for judging prospects. Some "white-shoe outfits" (so called because white bucks were once standard footgear on Ivy League campuses) still cherish a preference for an upper-class family background. It also helps to be free of conspicuous eccentricities: a facial tic, a squeaky voice or a gaudy necktie can bar a bright applicant, and even too much library pallor may arouse suspicion. In response to a Harvard Law School questionnaire on what it was looking for in graduates, a New York firm curtly replied, "Byron...
Volpe said he will wage the most energetic fight for the Republican cause in the Commonwealth's history. He assured reporters that he would "use a great deal more shoe leather" this campaign...