Word: throws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Career Cap. As for Collins' ambitions, even his supporters acknowledge that he would hardly throw over his post in Washington for another four years in Tallahassee. The U.S. Senate seems a likelier cap for his career. Senator George Smathers, who has been seriously ill with ulcers and a kidney ailment, has already announced that he may not run again in 1968. Senator Spessard Holland, now 73, may also decide to step down when his present term expires in January 1971. Though little more than a mile separates the Commerce Department from Capitol Hill, in Collins' case a detour...
...course you always managed to keep that unbeatable smile,' but the princess answered with a gesture like 'Sometimes I would like to wring their necks.' " Beatrix steamed on, describing a recent beam-and-wave tour: "There they stood, the little scoundrels. Their fists were clenched to throw sacks of confetti right in our faces-hard. The same with the flowers. And then you see the little faces of the kids, with their really mean expressions." Some people thought that was a rather mean expression by little Liesbeth, but Beatrix fell discreetly silent...
Novelist John Steinbeck, 63, will write a column when the mood strikes him as he travels about Europe. His subjects, he has told Long Island's Newsday, which will handle syndication, "might range from Irish fairies to the best way to throw rocks at Princess Margaret." Unlike most other columnists, Steinbeck worries about "how volcanically, how shatteringly fallible...
...said contemptuously. "I am going to beat him so badly that he'll need a shoehorn to get his hat on again." Cassius obviously is a man of his word. In the first round he was so busy taunting his opponent ("White American!") that he neglected to throw a punch and Patterson won the round. It was the only round...
...Martin Luther King brought cheers by reminding the crowd of her husband's long fight for civil rights. She disclaimed experience in foreign affairs but warned "the experts" that "bombings only make an oppressed people more determined to throw off the yoke of oppression...