Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week of excitement, a week of scandal and human tragedy, yet a week with a certain meaning: despite man's highest aspirations and achievements, the human clay is still far from porcelain...
...Providence, R.I., was born Theodore Francis Green, a kind and gentle person who-a full 70 years later-entered the Senate. Last week, closing out his fourth term, "Teddy" Green announced that he would not stand for re-election in 1960. At 92, he was already the oldest man ever to serve in Congress...
...famed forelock trimmed and brushed back in a styling that made him look somewhat more mature, 42-year-old Jack Kennedy recalled strong and weak Presidents of the past, said that "the American people in 1960 have an imperative right to know what any man bidding for the presidency thinks about the place he is bidding for-whether he is aware of and willing to use the powerful resources of that office...
...Concept. "Of course," said Kennedy, "it is important to elect a good man with good intentions-but Woodrow Wilson and Warren G. Harding were both good men of good intentions-so were Lincoln and Buchanan-but there is a Lincoln Room in the White House, and no Buchanan Room...
...more. The times and the people "demand a vigorous proponent of the national interest-not a passive broker for conflicting private interests. They demand a man capable of acting as the Commander-in-Chief of the grand alliance, not merely a bookkeeper who feels that his work is done when the numbers on the balance sheet come out even. They demand that he be the head of a responsible party, not rise so far above politics as to be invisible...