Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revenue only some $1,050,000. The budget will get one big boost from a juicy windfall: $4,000,000 gained from the sale of 77,000 acres of tideland oil and gas leases last December. It will get another from the transitional fund voted by Congress to tide the 49th state over its early years; the 1960 portion will amount to $6,500,000. And what happens after 1964, when the transitional aid reaches $28 million and stops...
...years since Marx promised his Communist apocalypse, when a new and superior kind of nonbourgeois man would be born, and 30 years or so since Poet W. B. Yeats warned against a possibly similar event-"the blood-dimmed tide," when a "rough beast, its hour come round at last, / Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born." But things, it seems, are neither so bad, nor so good, nor so interesting. According to the researches of U.S. Economist David Granick, Soviet Russia's new man is a devoutly respectable, ulcer-prone businessman with a close resemblance to George F. Babbitt...
...natives are determined to leave the Federation. Similarly, Northern Rhodesia's blacks fear domination by big, white-run, apartheid-minded Southern Rhodesia, most powerful member in the Federation. Last week Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky replied, "Poppycock!" when radio interviewers suggested that a "tide of African nationalism is rising." But African leaders said they would boycott Macmillan's speech in Salisbury, which is being given in two movie theaters (one with loudspeakers) that are normally barred to nonwhites. "We don't want to be used as a showpiece for Macmillan's visit and then...
Political Career. After the war, Kennedy naturally turned to politics, successfully ran for Congress in 1946. Six years later he cast his net for the Republican Senate seat of Brahmin Henry Cabot Lodge and won, in a stunning reversal of the Eisenhower tide that swept through Massachusetts and the nation. In the Senate, Kennedy has been a thoughtful middle-reader, with a highly independent record and a special interest in labor reform. At the 1956 Democratic Convention he was chosen to make a nominating speech for Adlai Stevenson, then was swirled up in the great attempt to stop Tennessee...
...just shaking my chemise." Maryanna explained to a popeyed customer, but her pronunciation was a little awk ward, and the shimmy got its name. World War I had just ended, and the new dance and the girl who invented it sluiced east ward toward Broadway on a rising tide of bathtub gin and needled beer. By then, Maryanna had become Mary Gray. But Red Hot Mamma Sophie Tucker caught her act and told her that Mary was no handle for a hoofer. Sophie looked at the spun-gold hair above the lithe, slim shape and decreed that Mary should...