Word: window
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Johnson visited the sailors and marines in Ward 4-C, who had hung a get-well sign from their window, took a two-mile walk, put in a few practice putts, held an impromptu press conference, and signed the $3.2 billion foreign aid bill, with a warning that "accomplishments, not apologies, are what the American people expect." Though the doctors announced that he could check out the next day, Johnson, sounding more and more like his old self, admonished reporters not to predict when he would leave the hospital or go to his Texas ranch...
Straw of Hope. Fearful above all of black rule, Smith has offered little more than window dressing in return. He seems willing to add to Rhodesia's legislature a senate of twelve African chiefs, but its powers would be dubious and most chiefs are government puppets, anyway. He suggests he might grant voting rights to 1,000,000 more Africans, but will not increase the number of House seats (15 out of 65) for which they can vote. He would even sign a treaty guaranteeing the sanctity of the present constitution that in theory will give Africans control...
...boots. He will take his turn at serving a breakfast of cooked meal, tea, toast and milk from a nearby dairy barn, attend compulsory chapel, then turn to rigorous academic work until 3 p.m. After that come the chores, which range from polishing the chapel's huge picture window to varnishing floors, feeding the pigs, washing the dishes, cutting and carting a portion of the 500 tons of wood that the school consumes each year. In the evening he will study under a master's eye. Lights...
...began a reading lesson-but she grinned when the class sang to the tune of Frere Jacques: "Are you happy, are you happy?" Edward, a Negro first-grader, stared at his reader, eyes glazed-but he joined in when everybody sang, "Good night, room; good night, light; good night, window." Nicky, a third-grader whose family had just arrived from Puerto Rico, grunted only a few words in class: "Yes," "No," "Thirsty"-but he flailed his arms along with the others in pantomime to "Fly with the angels soon in the morning; fly with the angels in that land...
...vided most of the necessary romantic ingredients. He was an athletic, tall, brooding Russian aristocrat, a former Foreign Legionnaire, remotely related to the 19th century French writer Madame de Staël, and a compulsive painter. When at the age of 41 he dived out of a third-story window in the Riviera resort of Antibes, his suicide rounded out the myth...