Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard, life, that's true. I didn't know what it was not to work hard as I grew up." But there were a few pleasures, too: amateur theatricals with the two Rains sisters on a neighboring farm, occasional trips to Long Beach, a little girl's pride in raising a prize-winning sow, bareback rides on the Ryan plow horse. One memorable day Will Ryan drove up grandly in the family's first car, a used model T with fancy isinglass curtains. "Everybody piled in-the neighbors, too-and he took us for a ride...
...boardinghouse in San Francisco, worked as an OPA economist. At war's end, Lieut. Commander Nixon and his lady were stationed in Baltimore. Pat was pregnant, and the future was uncertain. Then a now-famous telegram came from Whittier: a "Committee of One Hundred" active Republicans wanted to know if Dick would be interested in running for the congressional seat solidly held by Democrat Jerry Voorhis. After discussing the proposition at length, says Pat, "I could see that it was the life he wanted, so I told him that it was his decision, and I would do what...
...anyway, I love it!" He went happily down the receiving line, and began to warm up when he reached a group of children from the Soviet embassy, who showered him with flowers. To one little girl he boomed: "Your name is Natasha!" The surprised child stammered, "How did you know?" Laughed Nikita: "Every Russian girl is called Natasha...
...official warmth and splendor to that given President Eisenhower last December. Bunting in Peruvian red and white floated from every government building, crowds cheered Prado in the streets, a 101-gun salute honored him at the Foreign Ministry. To the Parisian in the street, who did not necessarily know who Prado is, it may have seemed an outsize greeting, but beneath the hoopla was a serious, meaningful gesture, and back of it was Charles de Gaulle...
...month stretch in Tennessee's Davidson County workhouse on an inciting-to-riot rap, Yankee Segregationist John Kasper, 30, fresh from a five-month respite in federal stir for contempt of court, was contemptuous of his treatment by the feds, laudatory of his local jailors. Observed he: "You know exactly what is expected of you at the workhouse. You eat, sleep and work, and that's about all of it. The federal system has too many bureaucrats. I always had the unexplained sense of great eyes watching me. And they go in for psychological brainwashing." At the moment...