Word: wicker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This education is also what Unruh carries into the California fight for the Governorship. It shows itself in some superficially distinctive ways: he "doesn't believe in the polls"; instead he disdains the defeatist pessimism of men like Tom Wicker and positively believes in his ability to challenge the incumbent...
...quite know what kind of fight we can wage. "Surely." Tom Wicker wrote in Tuesday's Times, "Mr. Nixon does not wish the world to see protesting Americans clubbed in the streets with the White House as a backdrop." Why would Nixon not want a good bloody knock-some-sense-into-their-dirty-heads streetlight to show the Viet Cong and the world that Nixon is in the driver's seat? And why should he be afraid of further alienating the anti-war movement? The fact that we have to beg for a parade permit after four years of this...
...standard that calls for at least a decent public restraint. In a day of diz zying moral change, they see themselves as the last defenders of moral authority. That is why they still admire the military and regard the police as heroes. The New York Times's Tom Wicker had a revelation at the Chicago convention: "These were our children in the streets and the Chi cago police beat them up." The Gallup poll recorded that 56% of the people interviewed approved of the Chicago cops. What those people meant was: "Those were our chil dren who were doing...
...voyage had begun. A tug towed the 12-ton papyrus craft out of the harbor at Safi, Morocco, and then cast off, leaving Thor Heyerdahl and his crew to sail their weird wicker boat 4,000 miles across the Atlantic to Central America. The Norwegian adventurer, who proved with Kon-Tiki that man could navigate a raft across the Pacific from Peru to Polynesia, hopes to show that ancient Egyptians discovered the New World long before Columbus. After four days, Heyerdahl radioed that Ra was 133 miles along the predicted track, riding a strong current and floating well-quieting...
...Here," for Mrs. Wicker and other well-to-do worriers, is a big, comfortable house in Cleveland Park, one of the charming residential areas that used to make Washington one of the nation's most habitable cities. Today, the capital's ambience-its malls and boulevards, its monumental architecture, cosmopolitan atmosphere and happily frenetic social life-seems imperiled...