Word: girt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long with politics at Sea Girt, N.J., and the night was long with parties. In the morning, Presidential Candidate Hubert Humphrey was up early, relaxing by wading in the surf. When he spotted a clutch of reporters straggling in his wake, he called out: "Come on, fellows, let's do a little jogging." Only TIME'S Hays Gorey took off his shoes and accepted the challenge. "Let's make it a race," Humphrey said. So Gorey took off in a 20-yd. sprint. He edged out Humphrey...
...plan for shifting its 1,300-employee international headquarters to a 141-acre tract by 1970. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp. bought 60 acres in Stamford, Conn., for its chemical division, along with 700 white-collar workers. Uris Buildings Corp., builder of dozens of Manhattan's new glass-girt office towers, announced plans for a huge laboratory-office center in suburban Rockland (N.Y.) County in anticipation of further corporate moves from the city...
...Properly girt about with wash-and-wear shirts, Soby sets sail for Venice and is set upon by a pair of memorable literary harpies: Miss Mathilde Kollwitz, a mosquito-sized Winnetka music teacher who perennially knits a succession of moose-sized sweaters, and Miss Winifred Throop, a mountainous ex-headmistress who wears a red wig as proudly as she does her overgrown schoolgirl's faith in True Love...
Modest Kitty. Far from equaling Hughes's frenzied pace, Mitchell spent most of the summer in a Sea Girt hotel nursing a leg he fractured when he slipped in a hotel bathroom. His campaign kitty is much more modest than Hughes's. amounting to less than $500,000. Fearful of getting caught in the national Republican Party divisions, he has waved off Richard Nixon. Barry Goldwater and other prominent Republicans from speaking for him. But he does plan to use the best-known Republican of them all: Dwight Eisenhower has agreed to make two appearances on Mitchell...
...girt" read "big"; for "gob" read "mouth...