Word: wade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President also suffered a disappointment relating to his own health. Dr. Preston Wade, a New York back specialist, gave Kennedy a physical checkup; rather than a clean bill of health, the President got a tinted report. Explained Press Secretary Pierre Salinger: "The President's back is stronger. It will be several months, however, before the President can resume vigorous physical activity, and he must expect to experience, as do all people with similar back problems, ups and downs and occasional setbacks." So hopeful had Kennedy been beforehand of a favorable prognosis that he proposed a golf match with Jacqueline...
...When the National Football Foundation chose football's top scholar-athletes for $500 Earl Blaik Fellowships, all eight turned out to be linemen-who are supposed to be long on brawn and short on brains. The winners: Tufts' David Thompson, Rutgers' Alex Kroll, Vanderbilt's Wade Butcher, Western Reserve's Albert Iosue, Colorado's Joe Romig, Rice's Robert Johnston, Oregon State's Mike Kline, Utah State's Merlin Olsen...
...women have a marked tendency to produce bastards. The narrator is George Ledra, the somewhat stuffy scion of a Manchester cotton broker. On vacation in Cornwall, 15-year-old George one felicitous morning hides in the bushes above a beach to watch Sylvia Chown Bascombe and her daughter Janet "wade naked ashore, glistening in the sunshine. They were both beautiful, the one full-breasted, the other budding." It was, thinks George, "a moment that belonged to the beginning of the world.'' For the next 30 years and 400 pages, George lopes after Sylvia and Janet. After dithering...
...Just the right incident," says Detroit Urban League Vocational Director Ernest Brown, "can be the bomb." Chicago, where tempers are tightest, has had three bombs: white violence against Negroes who took fire refuge in a white church (TIME, July 7); Negro wade-ins at all-white Rainbow Beach, where the sight of white demonstrators being dragged off by Negro cops did little to ease tensions; an unsolved Lawndale shooting, which Negroes blame on white youths...
...under Trujillo "was the best country on earth from the standpoint of the practical well-being of the people" (Westbrook Pegler). The Telly turned its attention (for 21 column inches) to a man in Greenwich Village who had just acquired a 1936 Dodge, reported that "that was indeed Joe Wade you saw bicycling along the Montauk Highway toward Southampton the other day" (Joseph X. Dever), and assured its readers that it is indeed possible for a dog to sing along with Mitch Miller (in answer to a query to Ann Landers...