Word: old
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Than this old continent of ours...
...means, the excellence of his record in school, his beginnings as a lawyer in Whittier (known as "Ye Friendly Town"), and his liking for pineapple milk shakes are all almost too good to be true. He has an amazing degree of self-control and neatness-the secretary of his old Whittier law firm recalls that when he came to work, the first thing he did was to take several hundred books off the shelves to dust them-and these qualities also mark him in his public life. And yet, says Author Mazo. "nothing about Nixon's public image...
...bait.' (Actually, his words were stronger.)" Even Tom Dewey, a Nixon supporter, urged him to withdraw. Yet Nixon went on to make his now-classic tide-turning defense speech-he threw in everything including St. Patrick, his children's dog Checkers, and Pat Nixon's good old Republican cloth coat-and went off the air in tears, thinking that he had made a mess of it. Minutes later, Producer Darryl Zanuck called to deliver an old pro's verdict: "The most tremendous performance I've ever seen...
...Old men love to give good advice to console themselves for not being able to set bad examples...
...most dangerous thing that can happen to old people who were once attractive is to forget that they no longer...