Word: sundown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HURRY SUNDOWN by K. B. Gilden. 1046 pages. Doubleday...
...know that all Americans will join with you in honest solutions to these problems." The President had replied in good nature that he could well afford: "I thank you for your expressed desire to cooperate in the work that faces us all in the days and weeks ahead." Sundown & a Cedar Fire. Vice President-elect Hubert Humphrey, just ar rived at the ranch from Minneapolis, clumped gamely along at Johnson's side, wearing a pair of size 1 1 cowboy boots on his size 8 feet and a five-gallon hat on what appeared to be a six-gallon...
...been -but not by much. After the ride, he returned to terra firma with a heavy sigh of relief, announced that he would do anything for Johnson but: "No more horses." The President haw-hawed, later shep herded a few people, including Hubert and Muriel Humphrey, on a leisurely sundown tour of the ranch, drawled contentedly about the soil, the rain, and the virtues of the U.S. voter. At the ranch after dinner, Lyndon and Hu bert kidded about their pre-election predictions; Johnson had said 44 states for the Democrats, Humphrey had guessed 45. Depending on how Arizona came...
...rich man. He ran a truly general store; the sign outside proclaimed, "Dealer in Everything." Later he dabbled in real estate and money-lending at 10% interest, rented land and shacks to Negro tenants. Each day he rose at 4 a.m. to open his store, then returned home at sundown to spend the long night hours poring over his accounts and IOUs, checking and rechecking to see that his debtors were up to snuff on their payments. "Cap" Taylor did not share his wife's liberal views concerning Negroes. Says Mrs. Lassater: "The Negroes were kept in peonage...
...sundown one day last week, as thousands watched, grimy, bearded Andre Martinet emerged at the surface, ending eight days and seven hours of anguish. "I waited and hoped, but above all I prayed," said Martinet. Safe at last, he immediately volunteered to go down once again to try to find five other men trapped in different passages, but at week's end rescue efforts for them were abandoned. Next, vowed Martinet, he was going to apply for a new job-above ground...