DECADES OF NO. 1-RATED TV SHOWS
So what's the deal with this stand-up comic having the No. 1 show in 1998? Guess he won the contest after all!
Jerry Seinfeld
25 million people in the U.S. have this chronic 6-letter lung disorder
asthma
Leaked to the press in 1971, the Pentagon Papers detailed America's involvement in this conflict
the Vietnam War
He was born Jan. 15, 1929 in Atlanta; died with a dream in his heart in Memphis on April 4, 1968
Martin Luther King Jr.
A washed haricot vert
a clean green bean
Wah! Ricky, I wanna be in the show!--Well, honey, this show of ours got a 67.3 rating in the 1952-53 season, so okay! You're in!
I Love Lucy
The Clanton gang at the O.K. Corral did not kill Doc Holliday--this, AKA consumption, did the trick 6 years later
tuberculosis
In October of this year, a month after reaching an all-time high of 381, the stock market came crashing down
1929
This First Lady was born in Southampton, New York in 1929 & died in Manhattan in 1994
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Chubby flying mammals are having a little fight
a fat bat spat
In 2016 "Sunday Night Football" blitzed the competition as Cris Collinsworth & this play-by-play man led the league
Al Michaels
Chronic bronchitis & this lung disease hard on smokers are the 2 main components of COPD
emphysema
Pres. Lincoln said, "I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right than I do in signing this paper"
the Emancipation Proclamation
Born in Spain in 1881, he "drew" his last breath near Cannes April 8, 1973
Picasso
The bag into which the very dark commemorative tablet goes
the black plaque sack
Come & listen to my story 'bout a sitcom named this, No. 1 in 1963
The Beverly Hillbillies
We nose this brand of nasal strips comes in clear & lavender-scented varieties to fight congestion
Breathe Right
Not to be confused with the gap of the same name, America's first national highway--and for many years, the main route west--was this road that extended from Maryland to Vandalia, Illinois
Double Points
Cumberland
Born in Chicago in 1943, he was checkmated in Reykjavik in 2008
Bobby Fischer
The mother in a movie about a guy & a girl overcoming obstacles to end up together
a mom rom-com
This actor & his "All in the Family" character Archie Bunker ruled from 1972 to '76
Carroll O'Connor
This cancer often due to asbestos exposure takes its name from another term for the pleura coating the lungs
mesothelioma
In 1590 English explorer John White returned with supplies to this colony only to find it gone
Roanoke
His adventures began in Wales in 1888; he spent some time in the Middle East, then died in a motorcycle accident in 1935
Lawrence of Arabia
Non-alcoholic lager produced aboard the Russian space station
Mir near beer