Word: annoyances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...things like British Jaguars and Irish linens, devaluation is likely to prove a severe drain on Lyndon Johnson's dwindling political reserves. If the President makes substantial spending cuts, he stands to lose votes among those directly affected. If he gets his tax increase, he stands to annoy everybody-and the closer to Election Day 1968 the increase is enacted, the more annoyance he is likely to arouse. Nevertheless, nearly all his economic aides-and many businessmen-consider the tax increase essential in order to avoid an inflationary burst that could destroy the dollar's viability in world...
...eighth straight championship-he took on Bermuda's best in a two-out-of-three match series for the Prince of Wales Trophy. Rules of the match specified that neither crew could sail its own boat. Given their pick of U.S. boats, they unhesitatingly chose Susan, hoping to annoy Bus. He merely shrugged, closed his eyes, pointed-and sailed whatever boat it was (he does not even remember) to two straight victories...
...tranquil fish swimming around the churning blades, those pretty-grooming lectures to kids in smoldering ghettos. Public relations men can reach into the real world and play: arrange a conference here, a clambake there, strike now a religious chord, then a sexy blue note. This p.r. playfulness can offend, annoy and infuriate. Despite the excellence at the top of the profession, far too many p.r. men still think their chief function is to stage lunches, cocktail parties, junkets, cruises, screenings, no-news press conferences, and other nonevents. Releases are fired off without regard for destination or deadline. Throughout the entire...
...passing "his hands up and down from groin to tummy." Charles de Gaulle, observed in his London exile, has effeminate hands, lacking muscle and arteries in them, but already in 1941 is heard yelling "France, c'est moi!" at Nicolson in the Savoy Hotel. "His arrogance and fascism annoy me," writes Nicolson, "but there is something like a fine retriever dog about his eyes." Laborite Clement Attlee looks "like a snipe pretending to be an eagle," Anthony Eden is "fairly wobbling with charm," Lord Beveridge, father of the welfare state, looks "like the witch of Endor...
...silence-which no Lyndon-ologist expects to last for long-may annoy the White House press corps, but there is no evidence that it annoys the country. In fact, it may prove to be just the right medicine for the President's sagging popularity. Last week's Harris poll showed that Johnson's margin- 56% to 44%-had neatly reversed Senator Robert Kennedy's embarrassing lead of last fall in the popularity ratings...