Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question of what kind of a Veep Spiro T. Agnew will make is more than usually clouded. At the beginning of the campaign, he made anonymity an asset. A joking reference to "What's-His-Name" warmed an audience up. The admission that Agnew w.as "not exactly a household word" carried a nice touch of modesty. By the end of the campaign, many Republican strategists wished that Agnew had remained What's-His-Name. The Vice President-elect had become not only a figure of comedy and controversy but also a decided liability. "Sure I think he hurt us," said...
...speech pledging that if he became President, he would risk halting the bombing of North Viet Nam in the hope of achieving peace. Twice before, Johnson had undercut him when he tried to stake out even moderately independent positions on the war. This time there was not a word from the White House...
General Curtis E. LeMay and the Peace and Freedom Party's Eldridge Cleaver can probably boast (if boast is the word) even more precarious futures. The general has lost his $50,000-a-year job as board chairman of a California electronics firm. Cleaver, who won nearly 200,000 votes, is headed for a California courtroom to stand trial for assault with intent to commit murder and assault with a deadly weapon-the result of a shoot-out with Oakland police officers last April. In the meantime, he is lecturing at Berkeley...
...when a North Vietnamese negotiator asked whether it was really true that the bombing of the North would halt if the way was cleared for the Saigon government to join the talks. Chief U.S. Negotiator Averell Harriman replied that this was indeed the case, and flashed word back to Washington that the long-awaited signal had come...
...band formed the word FRENCH and played "A Taste of Honey...