Word: waldorfized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny melt into each other's arms, the air fills with a familiar kind of harps-and-strings music. It's supposed to convey the impression of joyful undergraduate love, but it only conveys the impression that the scene is taking place in the Waldorf Cafeteria...
...even while enduring such violent swings in public esteem, Hoover himself remained constant in character and principles. And by .the time he died last week at 90 in his Waldorf Towers apartment in Manhattan, he ranked once again as a U.S. citizen who could truly be called revered...
...Cover His head bowed, his face lined with weariness and worry, the President of the U.S. sat glumly on the dais in the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria. To his right and to his left, white-tied politicians traded good-natured gibes in the spirit of the Al Smith memorial dinner that Francis Cardinal Spellman stages each year. But the guest of honor smiled wanly or not at all. When his time came to speak, he cut his talk in half, delivered it in a hoarse monotone. Lyndon Johnson looked for all the world as if he had just...
Even while President Johnson was brooding in the Waldorf ballroom, White House Press Secretary George Reedy summoned reporters to a special briefing in a makeshift press room near by. Red-eyed and visibly shaken, Reedy announced: "Walter Jenkins submitted his resignation this evening as special assistant. The resignation was accepted, and the President has appointed Bill D. Moyers to succeed...
...clear blue, living his international life often at a pace of seven parties per night, residing now at his retreat in the Berkshires, now in his Paris town house, now in his glass palacette in Los Angeles, now in his palazzo in Venice, now in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers, where he kept two suites, one for work and one for play...