Word: walnuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tribute to the right-mindedness of Virginia's Judge Howard Smith, 79, the leading citizens of South Carolina cheered lustily as former Secretary of State Jimmy Byrnes presented the autocratic chairman of the House Rules Committee with an eminently appropriate gift: a gavel hewn from a walnut tree planted by John C. Calhoun...
...great walnut doors of the U.S. House of Representatives swung wide, and Doorkeeper William ("Fishbait") Miller announced in his drawlingest Mississippi delivery the arrival of a distinguished member. Through the door came a tall, gaunt man with a shock of white hair, rimless glasses and a thin-lipped smile. The House rose in welcome, and Massachusetts' Representative John William McCormack made his way slowly down the center aisle. His peers had just elected him the 45th Speaker of the House...
This year the horse most frequently bracketed with Man o' War is one of Big Red's own great-grandsons (see chart): a doughty, walnut-hued, four-year-old gelding named Kelso, who runs like an antelope, eats like a longshoreman (10 qt. of oats daily), and is hooked on sugar cubes. The only race Kelso has lost this season was the Washington Park Handicap, in which he finished fourth on a slippery track, under top weight of 132 lbs. Running against the best distance and weight-carrying horses in the nation, Kelso has won the Brooklyn. Suburban...
...international maze, and to explain the most convoluted international personality, with a few deft lines. His Castro is a bellower whose gaping mouth reveals a hammer-and-sickle tongue. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser is a perspiring sphinx; West Germany's tough old Chancellor Adenauer, an uncrackable walnut. As depicted by Behrendt, France's De Gaulle wears spectacles that reflect the Gaullist cosmos: a double image of Charles de Gaulle himself...
...walnut-paneled White House office, Lawrence Francis O'Brien held a hurried conference with his aides. He had been warned by Vice President Lyndon Johnson that an important Southern Senator was wavering on an Administration bill. "See what you can do with him," O'Brien told a staffer. Then, as the meeting broke up, O'Brien turned to his telephone and called another Senator to thank him for a favorable vote the previous week. "I didn't want you to think we didn't notice and appreciate what you did," said O'Brien...