Word: webster
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comparing the King James Bible with the version cobbled up by the Anchor Press, Mr. Webster might justifiably say that they have transformed, transferred, removed, changed, transported and ravished the story of the Bible...
...imagination, antecedes them all. He calls to mind the great senators of the 1830's and 40's, those men who were at first allied to their sections, the old, old west or mercantile New England, but who became the most famous, and most respected, spokesmen of nationalism--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, Thomas Hart Benton...
...platform diving, Bob Webster of the United States moved up from sixth place in the last three dives to overtake Italy's Klaus Dibasi and win his second gold medal. Tom Gompf of the U.S. was third...
...honored art of pure slapstick is so out of vogue that few people even remember that the word refers to an actual stick-"a device," says Webster, "made of two flat pieces of wood, sometimes used in farce by one actor striking another in such a way as from the loud noise to make it appear that the blow was a severe one." One might think that television would be a wilderness of slapstick, but actually there is remarkably little of it. Last week NBC tried to change this situation by introducing three new slapstick comedies in one 90-minute...
...Francis, who would have preferred to be a scholar, felt obligated to carry on the family tradition of public service. He cut down on the drinking bouts, made an effort to appear "grave, sober, formal, precise and reserved," and began his new career by going to work in Daniel Webster's law office. No one has better expressed this pull of family tradition than the young-and reformed-Charles Francis: "Many men have been surprised that in a distinguished family much of the same spirit and feeling is transmitted from father to son, but nothing appears to me more...