Word: things
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unforgettable day five years ago, such an example of courage, dignity and true love to a thunderstruck world that nothing, absolutely nothing can ever erase it from our hearts. So let her marry whomever she fancies, wear her skirts as high as she pleases, do any crazy, foolish thing she can think of. She has all the right in the world...
...Said Hanoi's Nhan Dan: "The U.S. propaganda campaign about a so-called breakthrough in Paris will end in a flop." In Paris, Colonel Lau complained: "The Americans' formulas change, give the appearance of being more supple. But in reality, they all boil down to the same thing-reciprocity. And we can't accept this...
...viewpoint, was its questioning of how he had acquired some shares in the bank. According to the paper, Agnew claimed he had inherited the shares from his father, though his father had died a year before the bank opened. Agnew responded that he had claimed no such thing; he had inherited a debenture note in another company, sold the note for $10,000 and bought shares in the bank. That response seemed convincing; in a later editorial, the Times did not further discuss the inheritance...
...other countries, heckling is a sometime thing. The French do not even have a word for it. In Japan, speakers were once measured by their ability to stare protesters down, but heckling has become rare since World War II. Heckling is most common in Britain, where it is something of an art, designed to test a speaker's combativeness and quickness of wit. Appropriately, the word comes from the Middle English "hekele," to tease or comb flax, or broadly "to tease with questions...
HUMPHREY did the same sort of thing at the same time with a lot more success. He let the men and women on the telephone ask their question in their own voices instead of filtering them through an oily moderator, he decorated the proceedings with celebrities, and kept big Ed Muskie at his side to check bouts of verbal diarrhea...