Word: name
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leahy was nominated by Victor Morabito, a co-owner of the San Francisco 49ers. Gunsel was offered by Frank Mc-Namee, president of the Philadelphia Eagles. Washington's George Preston Marshall placed Schissler's name before the meeting...
Drawing four book cards from the sweater pocket he usually reserved for filing cards, he dropped them gently at the call desk. Concealing his nervousness, he flipped casually through some titles on the new books shelf, waiting for the familiar call, "Claverly 23." (Lucius didn't like his name called out in public, and he always smudged...
...blond wearing a robin's egg-blue dress. She smiled and asked "What's your name and where do you come from." "Panama, but we read the papers down there. I rode up on my burro but his feet got wet crossing the canal." "Oh, really? My father loves horses." They danced for a few minutes, and Gene became bored. "Excuse me, I have to go. Big polo match tomorrow and my horse kicks me if I'm late." "Oh really? My father loves horses...
...which letters of various sizes were arranged in an attractively confusing pattern. Underneath was printed a small clue: "This upstate village is a peaceful residential area. Its chief claim to fame is that than Allen and his troops slept here on the way to Ticonderoga." The solution was the name of a city, town or village in New York State...
American Presidential campaigns rarely rise above the level of polite name-calling and Madison Avenue sloganeering. When a candidate attempts to wage his campaign on principles and issues, most often he finds himself rejected by the electorate--as Adlai Stevenson has learned on two occasions. Instead of providing a quadrennial forum of intelligent discusison of the nation's problems, the Presidential election usually degenerates into a puerile contest between rival slogans and personalities, with the real issues thrust aside as fit topics only for columnists and professors. The people seem to prefer well-meaning mediocrity to well-reasoned policy...