Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TRAVELERS INSURANCE. Under the red-umbrella roof is a walk-through exhibit that portrays the history of man with arrested-action scenes showing cavemen painting on walls, Roman gladiators in bitter battle, the bubonic plague decimating a medieval city...
...rolled up primary victories because "Jack was out kissing babies while I was passing bills." In the heat of battle, Johnson wasn't above rattling the long-closeted skeleton of Old Joe Kennedy's days as U.S. Ambassador to England: "I wasn't any Chamberlain umbrella policy man. I never thought Hitler was right...
Kelly's Law states that if you bring your umbrella to work, it won't rain. It also decrees that if a Democratic Sen ator breaks his back in western Massachusetts, he will wind up with a Republican town committeewoman for a day nurse. To be sure, it made for some stimulating discussion at Northampton's Cooley Dickinson Hospital, but Teddy Kennedy, 32, failed to shake Mrs. Esther Madden on either the merits of Barry Goldwater or the demerits of the civil rights law before he was strapped onto a stretcher and driven 100 miles to Boston...
...sneering remarks on Swedish defenses. When he clambered onto the quay in Oslo, a ragged cheer broke out from assembled Iron Curtain diplomats-but not from the 3,000 curious Norwegians who had gathered to examine the visitor. One little old lady was moved to waggle her umbrella at Khrushchev and shout "Murderer" until a manners-minded policeman placed his white-gloved hand firmly over her mouth...
...still raining by the time the players reached the 18th green. Huddled under an umbrella, Lema watched Souchak line up a 25-ft. birdie putt-and push it 4 ft. past the hole. Tony's approach was 8 ft. from the pin. For nearly a minute he stood motionlessly over the ball, putter poised-and abruptly walked away. "I couldn't bring the club back," he said. "I stood there, looking at that thing, thinking, My God, this is a $20,000 putt-and I just couldn't hit it." Finally, Tony addressed the ball again...