Word: reno
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...patient builder of a great intellectual system, meets John Dewey, pragmatist and patient destroyer of systems. Monasticism, shielding a candle through the Dark Ages, meets the blaze of the Enlightenment. The Inquisition meets the Supreme Court, the apostolic succession meets the clapboard Congregationalist Church, the Sacred Roman Rota meets Reno...
...Nevada's former Senator George W. ("Molly'') Malone, of the dinosaur wing of the G.O.P., failed in a political comeback. Still Nevada's lone Congressman: Democrat Walter Baring of Reno...
...teenager jotted down a conventional description of "Mr. Smith" returning "from a successful business trip" and "thinking about his wonderful family and how glad he will be to see them again." To a creative classmate, the situation looked very different. "This man," he wrote, "is flying back from Reno where he has just won a divorce from his wife. He couldn't stand to live with her any more because she wore so much cold cream on her face at night that her head would skid across the pillow and hit him in the head. He is now contemplating...
...already off and running. Having vowed to campaign in all of the 50 states, he started with the farthest first. After a strategy meeting in Newport, R.I. with vacationing President Eisenhower and Running Mate Henry Cabot Lodge early in the week, Nixon and Wife Pat headed west. At a Reno airport welcome, Nixon drew cheers from the crowd by pointing out that Pat, born in nearby Ely, Nev., was wearing a pin that boasted. "I'm from Nevada" (someone had slipped it to her two minutes before). Campaigning smoothly herself, Pat got photographed kissing an Indian papoose...
Beer in Balmoral. Nearly everyone was staying in the Mapes Hotel with an obvious exception: Clark Gable, his wife, children, servants, gardener and dog took over Reno's closest approximation to Balmoral Castle, where the King likes to retire in the evening with a carload of cronies and a case of beer...