Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From a man who doesn't know he's 85. See PEOPLE...
Kennedy's camp was plunged in gloom: all the portents indicated a Humphrey victory next week. "Things aren't as bad as we say they are," said a weary Kennedy aide. "They're worse." Humphrey fluctuated between doubt and exultation. "You know what?" he told a reporter, only half in jest, "I may win this primary. It scares me to death. Then what will I do? Every favorite son in the country will begin to quiver again. They'll get as tough as boiled owls...
...Nazi Germany. Half in despair, half in admiration, Himmler told Italy's Count Ciano: "He is a great nuisance and gives me trouble all the time with his lists of names and his petitions for mercy. What a crew! Dutch. Jewish and German traitors. I don't know why I go on putting up with...
...hopeful' rumors, said Kappel, A.T. & T. was not considering an immediate boost in the $3.30-per-share annual dividend. "The time since the dividend was last increased was very short-one year-and this is not a long enough period to tell us what we need to know about the future, which is very long indeed." A.T. & T. stock, which had hopped to a new high of 96⅛ the day before, dropped right back down again, slipped 4⅝ points in a day and closed the week...
Instead of selling British products, wrote the Economist, many an ad relies with "desperate emphasis" on the implication that "we know this product is not competitive in price or design, but it is British-made and we've been making it for a very long time." When the British Travel Association sets out to extol the virtues of British food, the Economist says, "native critics feel distinctly uneasy," for "where would the tourist find that exquisite rare roast beef?" Ads for clean, spacious British Railways carriages are so far from the grubby reality that they "are guaranteed to make...