Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since Creation. It is only an accident of history that Richard Nixon occupied the White House when the U.S. first landed men on the moon, but the coincidence seems apt. No less than Neil Armstrong, he is the smalltown boy who rose to fame, the upright citizen, the doer somehow left a bit unsophisticated despite his success and prominence. Nixon could scarcely contain his exuberance as he waited on the flag bridge of the carrier Hornet for the Pacific splashdown. Waving his arms, he exclaimed: "Oh, boy! Oh, boy!" As the Apollo command module bobbed in the sea, Nixon shouted...
...free of the car, which overturned in the tidal water. "I remember thinking, as the cold water rushed in around my head," he said "that I was for certain drowning. Then water entered my lungs, and I actually felt the sensation of drowning. But somehow I struggled to the surface alive. I made immediate and repeated efforts to save Mary Jo by diving into the strong and murky current, but succeeded only in increasing my state of utter exhaustion and alarm." (See Ted Kennedy's top 10 legislative battles...
...Somehow the Boston Press has failed to give Jack Van Berg the credit that he is due. It seems that everyone loves a loser and hates a winner. Clearly Jack will run away with the training honors at Rockinghgam Park--both in terms of races won and of percentage of winning starts...
...Italian (or at least European) managerial control, a 30% salary increase, employee profit-sharing and employee participation in company decisions. They have brought in CISL, Italy's powerful Christian Democratic trade union, to represent them, while McKee has the backing of Italy's Confederation of Italian Industry. Somehow, McKee President Merrill Cox must figure out how to regain control of a firm whose employees are its only real assets...
...production was a delightful compromise between ancient and modern dress and speech. Several of the lines were delivered perhaps a bit more graphically than Aristophanes intended, but that was alright. It made me catch several that I'd somehow missed before. There were several other nice touches besides Harmony, a role filled (and how) by Laurie Campbell--including a calypso chorus to Lysistrata, and a folk-song paean to Athena. the nicest, though, was to give the Spartans ten-gallon Stetsons and Texas accents. It sort of gave you a better idea of what Demosthenes was up against...