Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drive for integration. By taking cases in groups, this approach would save time. Since the programs would be created by the Office of Education's personnel, they obviously would be in compliance with federal regulations. Finch and Mitchell seemed to be blunting a new and apparently important weapon. Word passed within the Justice Department that they had acted out of political pressure from Southern leaders. That feeling arose because Mitchell, as Nixon's campaign manager, advocated the appeal for Southern votes that helped elect Nixon...
...first, the word among L.BJ.'s knowing neighbors was: look out. Old Lyndon's reappearance was greeted by a mixture of nervous smiles and wonderment by his weathered-faced cattleman neighbors in the hill country and by the soft-handed politicians and businessmen in Austin, 60 miles away. Johnson, everyone said, would be a whirlwind. With his gargantuan energy and an ego to match, he would be into everything-buying up banks and newspapers, pulling the strings of Texas politics, holding rambling press conferences on everything from cattle prices to Republican snafus...
Johnson has clearly put out the word that he is now very much a private citizen. Those few friends who will talk about what he is up to do so with the hasty over-the-shoulder air of a heister peddling a hot watch in front of a police station. Among his friends, says one intimate, Johnson cannot help noting that the stock market has gone to hell, inflation is rampant and Nixon has had more men in Viet Nam than L.B.J. ever did. But to talk to outsiders about L.B.J. and his works is to court disaster. After...
...cited as Biblical descriptions of flying saucers, and Genesis 6, in which the "sons of God" mate with the "daughters of Men," is presumed to describe the spacemen's couplings with earthlings. Even the Ark of the Covenant becomes an intercom system through which the prophets received the word from space...
...polish. The ruse works, and he escapes into a drenching rain with two guards as hostages. He prods them sullenly forward until they turn warily and discover that Allen's pistol hand is a gleaming blob of soap bubbles. And so it goes, with sight gags interspersed with word foolery. The offbeat one-liner is Allen's comic forte, as when he speaks of a girl he was once fond of: "I used to make obscene telephone calls to her, collect." That might not be great comic writing, but it is good enough to take the money...