Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Keyserling, former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. Representative Henry Gonzalez, a Texas liberal and Johnson ally, also quit. Everyone expected a hasty and embarrassed resignation from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, one of the founders of the A.D.A. in 1947, but his aides passed the word that Humphrey had quietly allowed his membership to lapse three years...
...assignment turned out to be a bitter one. Khrushchev believed that missiles had made surface ships "sitting ducks." He derided cruisers as "fit only for traveling on state visits," and scrapped four that were still under construction. He even passed the word to the admirals to stay away from the round of receptions and parties during the 1956 air force day celebrations. Spotting four soldiers rowing a boat on a Moscow pond, Khrushchev joked to one of his American guests: "There is our navy!" He went as far as to contemplate disbanding the navy and transferring its missile-firing submarines...
...that he is 64, Choreographer George Balanchine's appearances as a dancer are rare and treasured, and he puckishly refuses to give out word of them in advance. The result, as New York Times Critic Clive Barnes put it, is that "picking which ballet he will do has become one of the greatest spectator sports since strip poker." Last week the great ballet master materialized for the first time this season-in the title role of his ballet Don Quixote-fluttering the audience like a stone thrown among pigeons. Sighed Barnes: "A legitimate thrill such as hearing Mozart play...
...sense of doing something virtuous, sensible and good about his condition. What all of the experts are wholeheartedly against is nonexercise. This leaves little comfort for the many who hold that the only good exercise is lifting a glass at the end of a tense day. For them, a word must be said about the tendency to overdo: after the last glass of Pommard with the blue cheese, it is not wise to rise too rapidly from the chair. That might be too strenuous...
...angstrom is equal to one hundred-millionth of a centimeter and is used to measure the length of light waves. The word has nothing to do with Angst, but pays tribute to Pioneer Spectroscopist Anders Angstrom...