Word: spits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fear & Confidence. The Houston gossipists' spit-spat has been building ever since Roberts abruptly announced 20 months ago that after 23 years on the Press he was quitting to accept a better offer from the Post Press Editor George Carmack frantically placed long-distance calls for a replacement. When none appeared, he took a slow look around his own city room, finally tapped energetic Maxine, mother of two, who had worked for Roberts since 1956 and knew all of her old boss's news sources. "I was petrified." says Maxine. "I couldn't eat. I couldn...
...loans and gifts totaling $855,000. The handsomest offer, $500,000, came from St. Louis-born Heiress Ellen Steinberg, a social worker in Manhattan, who perhaps made the best point of all. "Perhaps it is not the children who are the real sufferers," she said. "Those who jeered and spit are the ones in shackles...
...went on to win the flag, although not a world championship. Musical director Mark B. DeVoto's orchestra had me worried at first, with a listless and ragged overture, but loose ends were tucked in as the first act progressed and after the interval there was plenty of spirit, spit and polish, high-lighted by Andrew Schenk's percussion and a pyrotechnic. DeVoto had occasional trouble with the choruses of daughters, pirates and policemen; sloppy diction messed up some numbers, and the orchestra periodically submerged the singers. Handling a company as large as this one is, however, no mean feat...
...proud that his present wife is an indirect descendant of Napoleon. Lerner would be unlikely to cross a street unless the trip made reasonable sense, but Loewe once flew with a friend from Los Angeles to Vienna just to taste again those wonderful Little Wiener Wrsteln, (Vienna frankfurters) that "spit in your mouth." Then he got on another plane and flew back to California. It was an epically impractical journey, but it did, however briefly, take him home...
Common reaction: "You're on the wrong ticket. We don't vote Republican." To which Bagwell replies: "Shake hands with me anyway, won't you?" A few men drop Bagwell's broadsides to the ground, but this year very few spit on them (an old trick that prevents the broadsides from being picked up and used again). "That's a good sign," says Bagwell. "Two years ago they dropped our pamphlets like snow." It is not uncommon for a worker to sidle up with a wink, fold back his lapel and expose a concealed Bagwell...