Word: whiffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flying over the Atlantic, Jackie was indeed nearly overcome, had to whiff oxygen to relieve her fatigue. Four first-class seats were arranged to provide a berth so that the First Lady could rest. In Greece Jackie took it easy, her privacy assured by 80 Greek policemen and coast guardsmen who patrolled the land and water approaches to the villa of wealthy Greek Shipper Markos No-mikos overlooking the Saronic Gulf near Athens. During her 1961 visit, Jackie had used the same villa...
...roar of the huge hometown crowd. "It's a hell of a thing," said Pinch-Hitter Harry Bright. "I wait 17 years to get into a World Series. Then I finally get up there, and 69,000 people are yelling-yelling for me to strike out." Whiff he did, thus capping a spectacular performance-for someone else...
...Lemass' most bruising disappointment in office was Charles de Gaulle's rejection of British membership in the Common Market last year. Determined to take Ireland into Europe alongside Britain, Lemass had already started whittling tariff barriers to give Ireland's older and most cosseted industries a whiff of the cold competitive wind outside. To clear the way for Ireland's entry, which he now believes cannot come before 1970, Lemass has unequivocally committed his nation, which has 9,000 men under arms, to support of NATO policies. In 1949, at NATO's founding, the government...
...blue-eyed Pan with croppy, disarrayed blond hair and lips that are pursed in a rubber grin. His overall look seems to say "Don't crowd me." There is a whiff of felony about him, but he is nonetheless a prototype American. With his wide ears and open face, he looks something like a young Dwight Eisenhower after sophomore year at San Quentin...
Adding just the right whiff of Gallic is indestructible Charles Boyer, a delight to watch as he runs a school for would-be grooms, whose current pupil is Ricardo Montalban, the runner-up in the match for Hope's millions. High point in Boyer's my-fair-laddie crash course: instruction by the master himself in the art of nibbling an arm ("The elbow is a very nice place, and from there it is all good"). Backgrounds of the Grande Corniche are getting to be a grand cliché in movies nowadays, and Ball's scenario...