Word: windup
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Machine, made by Ideal, a windup, clear-plastic robot that walks swinging his arms, opening and closing his mouth, emitting a burping siren and ringing a bell. His innards are not only visible but can be taken apart. List price...
Invigorated by the sweet smell of success, Jack Kennedy swept his campaign into a dizzying, whirlwind windup. For the first time, both candidates were now using the state of the economy as their basic issue, giving everyone some rest from Quemoy, Matsu and Cuba. Kennedy struck home with economic issues in hard-pressed areas of Pennsylvania and Illinois, and conjured up the spectre of an economy "slipping into its third recession in six years" in areas that were not hard-pressed but were beginning to wonder if they might be. By his own oomph-no less than by virtue...
...criticism of the last eight Republican years, had put Nixon sharply on the defensive. By touring solid Republican country where the crowds were fairly yelling for blood, Nixon was able to let go the full jolt of the "rocking, socking" battle that he had been saving for the campaign windup...
...Talk. When the debate was over, each man departed with hardly a word to the other. For the two weeks remaining in the campaign, each had set a grueling windup program for himself. Both were off on their final drives in the key Midwestern states. Each had to deal in his own way with the wind-whipped campaign foliage-the religion issue, the direction of U.S. economy and foreign policy-that seemed to hover stubbornly, like leaves that are swept from draft to draft and never seem to come to rest...
Easing into Bakersfield for the whistle-stop windup the next day, the Kennedy train looked like a rolling fruit stand, jammed with the offerings of a dozen Central Valley towns...