Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the election, Teddy went off on another trip abroad. It was the seventh he had made and, as always, he followed his father's instructions, scribbling down voluminous notes in brown, spiral-backed notebooks. He returned to Massachusetts to take a job as an assistant district attorney for Suffolk County. He accepted only a token $1 of the $5,000-a-year salary-like his brothers and sisters, he had received a $1,000,000 trust fund at the age of 21-and quietly began planning with his father to become the Democratic nominee in the senatorial election...
WGBH-TV (channel 2) will provide coverage of the debate between spiral candidates George Cabot Lodge '50 and H. Stuart Hughes at 8 p.m. Saturday from John Hancock Hall. Boston's three commercial stations channels 4, 5, and 7) have refused to televise the program...
...oscillate freely. They touch and tinkle in a sparkling Mozartian minuet. But hark! Whence comes this counterpoint that shivers the crystals into new and shimmering song? It comes from the man behind the desk-a big-handed, big-boned man with a lined, cornfield face and greying locks that spiral above him like a halo run amok. He speaks, and the words emerge in a soft, sepulchral baritone. They undulate in measured phrases, expire in breathless wisps. He fills his lungs and blows word-rings like smoke. The sentences curl upward. They chase each other around the room in dreamy...
...Spiral Road, metaphorically, leads to God. If filmgoers find themselves slightly agape to discover Rock Hudson traveling this road, they will be no more taken aback than the character Rock plays, an aggressive, self-centered young doctor out from The Netherlands for a five-year tour of duty in the tropical Dutch East Indies...
...keep the economy healthy and encourage investment, the President said, another inflationary spiral must be prevented: "Our share of the world's manufactured exports declined in the 1953-60 period by nearly 16%-at the same time that our prices on these products, relative to those of other industrialized nations, increased 14%." To ease the profit squeeze and encourage investment in modernization-thus helping to cut costs and raise exports-he had proposed a new tax credit and a revision of the Treasury's depreciation rules that together would mean a "tax cut" for U.S. businessmen...