Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statement of the President's aides that the new backache condition has no connection with his old ailment is ridiculous! It has as much truth as saying a fresh crack in the wall has no connection with a slowly settling foundation under the building...
...them." The alliance ended in 1952 when the Reds demanded control of key departments as their price for support in São Paulo's mayoralty election. Quadros turned them down. In their wrath, the Communists tried to tie a capitalist can to Quadros with such epithets as "Wall Street stooge" and "the Esso candidate," did their best-as they have in every election since-to defeat him. Quadros took to the streets, boasting that he owned only one pair of shoes ("Why should any man with only one pair of feet need more than one pair of shoes...
...group of farm leaders stood waiting in his office for what seemed an eternity while Quadros finished scribbling some message. Quadros' old gold Patek Philippe pocket watch ticked on the desk, beige curtains closed out the view, the ever-present portrait of Abraham Lincoln stared down from the wall. "Then," says one of the farmers, "he looked up and started talking without greeting us or asking us to sit down. We stood silently for 48 minutes while he talked intensely about his farm plans and requirements. Suddenly a power failure put out the lights, but he kept right...
Stereo & Steaks. At his office, Goldwater may skim the Wall Street Journal and the Phoenix newspapers-he rarely reads the New York Times and gave up the liberal Washington Post because of its "slanted reporting"-before plunging into the mail. He tries to get home by 7, sips two or three bourbons and water while helping prepare dinner (usually steak). He fancies himself a cook, but sometimes lets his tastes run away with him. He once used peanut butter to the point that his sons dared him to shave with it; Barry did, "although I smelled like hell...
...himself at cocktail parties: he weaves in and out among the stars, offering them half a million here, half a million there, while his brothers Marvin, 43, and Walter, 39, eat fingernail canapes. At home almost every night, Harold watches motion pictures projected through openings in his living-room wall (when not in use, the little windows are covered with reproductions of masterpieces...