Word: wound
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salvador: "With deep appreciation for yummy fried eggs and homemade toast, but most of all for your delightful sense of humor, your ever-smiling face and your friendship." At dawn, when the President of the U.S. went to the kitchen for an early snack, he found Luci there, too wound-up to sleep...
...fifth layer. The knife finally cut through, and Pat submitted to the bridegroom's traditional cake-eating indignity. Before the couple made their farewells and departed on an unknown honeymoon about 6:45 p.m., Luci made a last speech from the south balcony, then tossed her bouquet. It wound up, with a little sisterly collusion, in the possession of Lynda Bird, whose escort at the wedding was Actor George Hamilton. "Thank you all," said Luci, "for this beautiful, wonderful day, the most magnificent day of our lives...
...daughter in 1820 was confined so closely to the family that the ceremony was attended by only 42 guests and reported by the Washington press in 34 words. Subsequent White House brides from Elizabeth Tyler in 1842 to "Princess" Alice Roosevelt-who envisaged a "comparatively quiet family affair" and wound up with 1,000 guests in 1906-have sought with diminishing success to elude the tidal wave of publicity that inevitably engulfs a First Family wedding...
...started carrying sandwiches around in his golf bag when he was paired with Arnold Palmer in a tournament last year. "I knew I would never get near the refreshment stands because of Arnie's Army," he says, "so I had my wife make me up a lunch." He wound up winning $59,699 in 1965. Nibbling sandwiches between shots, Al insists, has a tranquilizing effect: "If I don't eat I get nervous, and when I get nervous I make bad decisions." Why peanut butter and jelly? "If you forget and leave them in your golf bag," says...
...fire in 1947, Romanoff got on the phone. "Should the area be declared a disaster area?" he asked. "What's needed down there?" The mayor, the Red Cross and top police officials, thinking that they were giving the White House a firsthand report of the damage and injuries, wound up giving Romanoff more information than any other reporter came close to collecting...