Word: visitant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talking about issues. He just rambled on about anything that popped into his mind. Sample quotes: > "Let's always be nice. When your neighbor comes over to your house, and he has been living there alone for a long time and he gets lonesome, and he comes to visit you, even if he does kind of start doing all the talking, you be nice to him and courteous, because everybody is entitled to associate with good company every once in a while." > "Love thy neighbor as thyself; do unto others as you would have them do unto...
...Hold Your Potatoes." On through the day, Lyndon and Lady Bird moved, almost ritualistically, as in a stately saraband. To the old Johnson homestead they went, to reminisce a while about Lyndon's boyhood and to sit in the porch swing. Later they visited at the ranch of A. W. (Judge) Moursund, Lyndon's old friend and trustee of his financial interests. The President sat slumped in a living-room chair for a while and watched the election returns on television. Then, by helicopter, he and his party flew to Austin's Driskill Hotel, waded into...
...Messengers were sent all over these districts in the summer of 1381, to prepare the country for the event. They were men of various countries, and they did not always visit the localities of which they were respectively natives. Such agitators had long been at work in the villages and towns of England, but they now came bearing, not general exhortations, but a particular command from the 'Great Society,' as they called the union of the lower classes which they were attempting to form." G. M. Trevelyan, England in the Age of Wycliffe, 1368-1520, page...
...today's election unless he runs afoul of some of the perplexing imponderables of the campaign. Will a significant, as yet hidden, conservative bloc creep from under the rocks to cast their ballots for the Republican candidate? Will Johnson devotees, their eyes glazed by astounding poll results, neglect to visit the voting booth and put down a mark for their man? Will moderate Republicans, fearful of giving Johnson too sizeable a mandate, vote instead for his opponent in a reverse protest...
Perhaps a public relations man for one of New York's local television stations summed it up best when he said after a Keating visit to the studio: "It'll be different next week when Kennedy comes. Now, I'm not partisan--I'm not even registered--but when we did a radio program with him, 50 girls walked off their jobs to see Kennedy...