Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...question pertains to the excerpt from a letter written by T. H. White to Richard Burton regarding Camelot: "I hope it will be borozonic." I assume it is a word coined by White and am curious as to its meaning and origin...
...white Lincoln moved slowly through Georgetown's narrow streets, picked up speed as it headed downtown toward the Capitol. In the back seat President-elect Jack Kennedy fiddled with the electric window switch, then sat back and. as if thinking aloud, discussed the vast difficulties of forming a new U.S. Administration. "It's tough to find the kind of people we want," he said, "but we're coming along...
...dignified red-brick home at 3307 N Street in Washington's historic Georgetown section last week became a sort of center of Government-making more news than the White House. In and out all during the week hurried top-ranking Democrats. From time to time, John Fitzgerald Kennedy emerged to hold front-step press conferences, most often having to do with appointees to his new Administration team. But for all the affairs of state that weighed upon him. Jack Kennedy quite often seemed like any other bedraggled, bewildered father. whose wife was away having another baby...
Next evening Rockefeller got an argument from none other than President Dwight Eisenhower. Arising to toast Nixon at a White House dinner, Ike said: "The Vice President will be the head of the Republican Party for the next four years, and he will have my support and the support of all those who are present tonight." Unfazed, Rockefeller the following day paid a scheduled call upon the President, shrugged off Ike's tribute to Nixon ("I would not want to debate with the President on that subject"), and issued a call for "collective leadership" of the G.O.P. Then...
...morning the women gathered in an ecstasy of hatred on the streets of New Orleans, where two schools had been ordered by U.S. courts to integrate. They shrieked like harridans, cursed, kicked and clawed at the few who dared brave their lines. At McDonough 19 School, a boycott by white pupils was complete: three Negro girls, all first-graders, attended alone. But at William Frantz School a six-year-old Negro girl was joined by two white children, then by four, then by six, and at week's end by ten. New Orleans seemed ready to return...