Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cruising off San Diego aboard the nuclear carrier U.S.S. Enterprise at week's end, he proposed an oceanic end to the war. Addressing Hanoi-as well as the voters at home-he declared: "You force us to fight, but you have only to say the word for our quarrel to be buried beneath the waves." The President suggested that "a neutral ship on a neutral sea would be as good a meeting place as any" for the U.S. and North Viet Nam to begin negotiations-"so long as one did not insist that the other walk on water...
...struck with congressional leaders of both parties and with his protégés, Sam Rayburn and Wilbur Mills. In those backroom meetings of what he called the "Board of Education," Garner usually got his way, and Rayburn continued them as Speaker. Above all, Cactus Jack kept his word, which he characteristically called "staying hitched...
RONNIE GETS GOP FROM LEKA, SON OF ZOG, the headline might have run-and every word would have been true. California's Governor Ronald Reagan, 56, has been friendly for years with Prince Leka, 28, the throneless son of Albania's late King Zog, who was deposed in 1939. After a visit to Sacramento last spring, Leka wrote from Paris that he would be sending "a small token of appreciation," namely a 15-month-old, 700-lb. elephant. The beast's name: Gertie, which Nancy Reagan thought lacked a certain chic, and is why the Sacramento...
...projection, and soaringly powerful voice that the title role requires. The 19th century Soprano Lilli Lehmann said it was easier to sing three Brünnhildes than one Norma, and the great French Prima Donna Pauline Viardot was so obsessed with the difficulties of the part that the last word she spoke on her deathbed was "Norma." Maria Callas has scaled the role, though rarely without lapses along the way, and often with a sense of straining bravely beyond her vocal limits...
...Centro gave the word early last January. In five tenements along West Newton Street in Boston's South End, the rent strike began. A handful of Puerto Ricans, nine families in all, refused to pay their rent until the slumlord brought the buildings up to Housing Code standards. He responded by turning off the heat one night in the apartment of one of the strikers and her four children. But they held...