Word: torches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...preliminary platform approved last week was laced with anti-McGovern vitriol. It asserted that the Democratic Party has been "seized by a radical clique which scorns our nation's past and would blight her future," and would turn "back toward a nightmarish time in which the torch of free America was virtually snuffed out in a storm of violence and protest." It piously protests that the U.S. should not perform an "act of betrayal" by overthrowing the Saigon government, nor should it "go begging to Hanoi." And: "We reject a whimpering 'come back America' retreat into isolationism...
...their good gray heads. "That ceiling was 500 years old," the German ambassador defensively informs a shocked Cabinet back in Washington. The Vice President (Lew Ayres), the victim of a recent stroke, lolls in his wheelchair like an unstrung marionette and proclaims his inability to take office. The torch is passed to Douglass Oilman (James Earl Jones), President Pro Ternpore of the Senate, prompting the Capitol's most prominent Dixiecrat (Burgess Meredith) to snort "the White House doesn't seem near white enough for me tonight...
...plasterer from Whittier, Calif. (Nixon's home town), bought him self a $10,300 Lincoln. The ignition fell out, the air conditioning failed, the front end waggled. One day Campos took the Lincoln to the front lawn of the Ford plant in Los Angeles, set it to the torch and planted a potted lemon tree atop the charred wreck. Tenants at 210 Central Park South, about as elegant an address as one could aspire to in Manhattan, have been feeling abused ever since they moved in 3½ years ago. Last month, frustrated by constant evasions by the building...
...sold to a dealer, a collector, or a museum; they remained in his own collection in France after they had been rejected by a committee for a memorial to Picasso's friend, Poet Guillaume Apollinaire. ("What did they expect me to make, a muse holding a torch?" Picasso grumbled later...
...Kustomizer George Barris, out in North Hollywood, and had Barris totally rebuild the little sports car into something more like an old Jaguar XK.140. After that, he couldn't stop. Nosseck next took his 1970 Firebird 400 to Barris, had him plunge through the roof with his acetylene torch and put in a sun roof, apply heaters (great phony silver pipes coming off the head of the engine, exiting from the sides of the car behind the front wheel, zipping, shiny chrome tubes, down the sides of the car and fastening just in front of the rear wheels...