Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida were looming ahead in successive weeks. Even as the victory chants in a Manchester hotel broadened his gleaming grin, the boyish-looking candidate took the lectern to talk of the impending challenge by Alabama Governor George Wallace in Florida. Dropping his genteel accent, former Governor Jimmy Carter spoke jokingly in the redneck slang of his rural South, vowing, "And we gon' take 'im!" His traveling Georgia campaign workers whooped with joy. Then Carter, whose Secret Service code name is Dasher, flew off to Boston while most of his exhausted Democratic opponents slept overnight in New Hampshire...
...West's view, Patty exhibited symptoms of dissociation when he brought up the subject of the bank robbery. She spoke about it like someone "trying to reconstruct a dream." What about the shoplifting fracas at Mel's Sporting Goods store, in which Patty helped the Harrises escape by firing weapons over their heads? West explained it away by saying that she performed exactly as she had been conditioned to do. He made much of Patty's first remark to the Harrises: "Did I do it right?" Patty, said the psychiatrist, was seeking their approval as though...
Howe, who spoke on "The Jewish writer and the American tradition," traced the evolution of Jewish authors from their expression of alienation through "gross sentimentality and self-comforting softness" to their eventual creation of an articulate style characterized by a mixture of the "sardonic and the sentimental...
...after those visits, Bailey put Patty on the stand to tell of her life in the closets. He spoke to her like a father, leaning toward the witness box and questioning her so calmly that the two might have been having an intimate conversation away from the eyes of all the strangers in the room. Patty said that she had lost 15 lbs. in the closets, dropping to a weight of 90 lbs., and that when the blindfolds were removed, the light had stabbed painfully into her eyes. She vividly re-created the tension that she claimed she lived under...
Senator Gore, who died in 1949, was eulogized in a 1959 TV play written by his grandson. Vidal himself spoke the last words: "Gore's long life passed as swiftly, in his own phrase as 'the snowflakes upon the river.' But he is still remembered and he is missed not only for himself but for what...