Word: bit
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...later after he followed Huey from their Winnfield homestead as a traveling salesman, lawyer and political guerrilla, he fought some of his older brother's political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish to climb the higher reaches. Their falling out was bitter; to Earl, Huey was "the yellowest coward that God ever let live...
...cheers of Townsend's followers drowned out the jeers, and the Townsend Plan assumed ominous proportions as a religio-political movement with clubs in 42 states, a well-organized lobby in Washington and a Recovery Song (sample lyric: "Old folks will take their ease and have a bit of fun/And will be grateful to Townsend...
...spear-bearer of the Kennedy camp, at first told newsmen that Khrushchev felt that Kennedy would be a "sensible" President. But just in case the Kennedy camp was worried about Joe Curran's failure to qualify K.'s kiss-of-death remark, Curran hastened to say, a bit later on TV's Meet the Press, that what he really had meant was that Khrushchev is afraid of Jack Kennedy. In fact, said Joe, "he hates Kennedy." As for Dick Nixon, Curran reported that Khrushchev has only contempt for the Vice President: "He is a fumbler...
...sure) has also had her experiences. About 20 years ago she blew over on her side, and when she was stood upright again, the Montana secretary of state-an avowed enemy of Anaconda Copper-took the occasion to have her copper coating changed to aluminum. This caused quite a bit of talk for a while, until politically powerful Anaconda paid for having her tan restored...
High up in his office in Manhattan's Seagram Building, which he helped Mies build. Johnson is apt to feel a bit wistful about the old days. "Of course I'm nostalgic for the old period of battle when we all fought for the International Style. Everyone hates labels, but that's what we were-there was a style, a movement, a discipline." Now, says Johnson, architecture is moving not in one direction but many. The result may be chaos, but there could also be even more excitement...