Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John Steigman, Pennsylvania head coach, was hardly the picture of contentment after Saturday's game. Between puffs of his cigar, the losing coach gave short, flat replies in a tight-lipped whisper to reporters' questions at the post-game press conference...
...Nixon ran slam-bang into one of the biggest, loudest crowds that ever greeted a candidate. Perspiring throngs clawed and pushed at him. Nixon placards rose and spun in the humid air, confetti cascaded down from hotel rooms, and the traffic din from Lake Shore Drive fell to a whisper under the tumult in the streets. Squeezing through the tight throngs, Nixon found safety at last in his Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel suite. But it was a safety of sorts. Beneath the clamor and the cheers lay a snorting Republican rebellion that threatened the future not only of Nixon himself...
...audience of miners in Ravenswood. As Ted Kennedy recalls it, "I was saying to the audience, 'Do you want a man who will give the country leadership? Do you want a man who has vigor and vision?', when Jack took the microphone and said in a hoarse whisper, I would just like to tell my brother that you cannot be elected President until you are 35 years of age.' So back to the boondocks I went...
...rushed up to whisper into Lodge's ear. "Thanks," he said, "for not mentioning the Trojan horse...
...tossed out the possibility that a crisis growing out of the Paris summit conference might change the whole picture.Such a time of national peril, they suggested, could make the Democratic Convention reject Kennedy as too young and too inexperienced to cope with Nikita Khrushchev. A better crisis candidate, the whisper went, might be Johnson, the cool, bipartisan helmsman, or Symington, the military expert, or Stevenson, the internationalist. It all had the sound, though, of whistling in the growing dark...