Word: shows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saxbe spent $750,000 in his campaign (check the official records or show me better proof), not the two million which Mr. Geoghegan dwelled upon and Mr. Gilligan somehow "knew" we "had" six months before election day. (As proof of our poverty: over 80 per cent of the paid campaign staff, including myself, received no salaries after the month of August.) Mr. Gilligan spent...
...into Boston and shee a sow--uh, see a show." (He was getting nervous again, damn it; he could feel his self-control evaporating like sweat.) "I can pick up the tickets on Monday. I'll call you Monday night and let you know what show it will b; I'm sure we'll have a real blast...
...acclimated and she was on the brink of complete collapse. "You can't build a legitimate movement on coercion and violence," she said, or words to that effect. Betsy allowed as how she was attending classes regularly for the first time she could remember, now, during the strike to show that people other than fascists cared about such things as feedom of movement. By way of being sympathetic, I went with her to a class of Oscar Handlin's that turned out to deal with the innovative power of American cities around the turn of the century. I searched Professor...
HARVARD likes its Commencement to be a good show, and for a good show, you need big-name stars. Hence honorary degrees...
...addition to the element of surprise, there is the excitement of an in-the-flesh appearance. Harvard will not confer the degree on anyone who does not show up in person to receive it. If a flat tire on the highway prevents a recipient from appearing at the morning check-in, he does not get his degree. (He would probably be invited back the following year, however.) In 1901, President McKinley was voted a degree, but didn't show up. He didn...