Word: sprig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...points by promoting himself as a man of peace. At almost every stop, he notes that the American eagle on the presidential seal clutches a large olive branch in its right claw. With some oratorical license, he laments that the eagle on the vice-presidential seal holds a mere sprig of olive. "You let me have a handful," he tells crowds, "and believe me, you'll have peace...
...Sprig of Peace. Democrats with antiwar constituencies feel that Humphrey has no coattails-and might even drag them down. Strategically, their position resembles that of many G.O.P. liberals during Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign. Thus, while Kennedy Operatives Stephen Smith and Theodore Sorensen have endorsed Humphrey, they are expending most of their energy on New York Democrat Paul O'Dwyer's effort to unseat Republican Senator Jacob Javits. When he returned last week from a three-week postconvention holiday on the French Riviera, Gene McCarthy said that he would now devote his efforts to raising funds...
...Coffee Cantata. A father threatens every punishment to save his daughter from vice, but she persists: "If I don't get my coffee three times a day, I'm like a piece of dried-up meat." Coffee, she sings, is "better than a thousand kisses." A gay sprig of baroque music, the cantata is given an airy and stylish performance by the soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra of Radio Berlin...
Across no man's land comes the sound of Silent Night-"Stille nacht, heilige nacht. . ." The Germans toss over a boot containing a sprig of evergreen tied with red ribbon, a package of cigarettes, a piece of sausage. The Tommies toss back a Christmas pudding. Then, as the Tommies grab for their rifles, German soldiers appear at the back of the stage. They have a bottle of schnapps. The rifles go down. Everybody drinks. Up in the light bulbs it says: ONE HALF OF BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WIPED...
...about what to do with it. He hurried to the Covent Garden lodging of Nanny, who by this time conducted her bed games professionally. "I told her the strength of my purse," Hickey recalls, "and proposed going to the play, which she consenting to, there was I a hopeful sprig of 13, stuck up in a green box, with a blazing whore." The caning he received for the escapade did not discourage...