Word: swats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambitions of her husband. In the tradition of Southern plantation patriarchies, Lyndon Johnson is head of the family-period. And as he himself admits, "I'm not the easiest man to live with." He strongly influences her tastes -in clothes, coiffure and makeup. He has been known to swat Lady Bird so hard on the behind that her feet nearly leave the floor. Sometimes, when after-dinner drinks have flowed for a while, he launches into a few bawdy stories, fires out cuss words like buckshot. But Lady Bird sits by serenely, smiling faintly or gazing out a window...
Certainly David Riesman is America's best critic and, of course, an American critic must be a critic of our middle class. Upper-middle brows like to swat the middle-class with back issues of the New Republic, and Paul Goodman castigates the masses with vindictive paternalism. Riesman is less sure of himself, less polemical. In turn, he takes himself less seriously...
...strikes with the swift, clawed fury of a pouncing cat-and jet pilots call it by that name. CAT (for clear air turbulence) can swat a jetliner down a mile in a minute flat, paste passengers to the ceiling, and rip the wings from light planes. Many CAT victims go uncounted because up to now CAT has been invisible...
Died. Rogers Hornsby, 66, baseball's greatest right-handed hitter, "The Rajah of Swat," whose .424 average in 1924 set a record never surpassed; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Crusty and bluntspoken, Hornsby walloped his way up from the Texas sand lots to set a fistful of records with the St. Louis Cardinals (National League batting champion six times in a row, thrice with .400-plus) ; as player-manager in 1926, he brought St. Louis its first pennant and world championship, but had less success with other teams, going from club to club until in 1937, he left...
Creeping Splits. Previews, Inc.'s effort has conservationists, swamp lovers, hunters and bird watchers so mad they could swat a lepidoptera. They are lyric in their descriptions of the Great Dismal Swamp as a primeval forest of peat bog, cypress and juniper trees, of diaphanous curtains of Spanish moss, of copperhead and rattlesnake, bear, deer and mink, and of quicksand. The swamp once covered 1,500 sq. mi. But modern civilization's bulldozers have cut it down to some 600 sq. mi. Now even to the Great Dismal Swamp comes the forward tread of split-levelism...