Word: darkness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hour later, showered and changed into a fresh dark-blue suit and white shirt, Kennedy is on the podium in the Sheraton's grand ballroom. He has been working on his address until the last moment, and sometimes he stumbles over the notes in the margins, but he is one of the most effective stump speakers in the country, and his vigorous attack on Jimmy Carter comes through loud and clear. Though he does not mention the President by name, the words leader and leadership keep recurring, 17 times in all. This is Ted Kennedy's main theme, tonight...
Kennedy's formal announcement will open a major new chapter in the alternately tragic and triumphant saga of the nation's most eminent modern political dynasty. Americans have gone through the bright hopes of Camelot and the dark night of two Kennedy assassinations. They were both titillated and dismayed by the spectacular dramas of Jackie's widowhood and remarriage and by Mary Jo Kopechne's death at Chappaquiddick...
...Kennedy strode toward his six-room corner suite on the second floor, accompanied by half a dozen dark-suited Secret Service men, TV crews in the corridor snapped on their lights and correspondents crowded around to ask questions. All they got was a three-second glimpse of him closing the door. After a quick huddle with more aides, Kennedy popped across the hallway?on went the TV lights?and into the paneled Judiciary Committee hearing room. There was a hush in the audience and then an excited buzz. Kennedy walked quickly to his seat and rapped the committee into session...
Even in the late '60s, Radcliffe encouraged women to wear skirts to class and around the city. Molony says as a freshman, she was told to wear a skirt in the Cambridge Common and warned that the common could be dangerous after dark. But, she says, "My average skirt was 13 inches long." However, only the weekly formal dinners at Radcliffe actually required her to dress...
Riding the 5:04 in from Stamford, the stockbrokers looked a little sleepy and a little nervous. they usually come to work three hours later, but Monday on the 50th anniversary of the Stock Market's disastrous 1929 crash, they went to work in the dark...