Word: air
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secret Service agents displayed their traditional cool in a potentially explosive situation. They let the two RCP protesters harangue the man who served as Secretary of the Air Force at the height of the Vietnam war. At the same time, the agents inconspicuously slid into position in case one of the verbal assailants pulled a gun. A moment before, Brown had been extolling the virtues of arms control...
...gray, and the breath of the guardsmen steams in the chilly air. But the military on hand know the bleak and hushed atmosphere will not continue long. The white altar, red stairs and yellow flowers, in the floodlit center of the Common, belie the spectacle that will take place in 15 hours. The Pope is coming to Boston, and the city readies herself...
Press people are checking in to cover the arrival. Over at gate seven they're giving out United Air Lines boarding tickets for standing room on the press platform. At gate eight they're checking in the people who will travel with the papal party on the week-long trip. A small, balding and very nervous man has been handed the microphone--his voice is a mix of officious timidity. He's losing his audience. Content to find their own information, the crowd drifts away. The reporters gather around the monseigneur and the bureaucrat who are holding the seats...
Cannibals and Missionaries is a very busy book. A committee of leading liberals is anxiously trying to get to pre-Ayatullah Iran to investigate charges that SAVAK, the Shah's secret police, tortures political prisoners. On the same Air France flight, a handful of rich American art collectors are bustling to the same destination for a look at what's new in Persian knickknacks. Neither group gets very far because the most active passengers of all are a team of hijackers-two Arabs and two young, middle-class Dutch radicals of the Baader-Meinhof persuasion...
...arrived at 4:30. His gaunt, expressive face was dominated by piercing eyes, conveying a mixture of intensity and repose, of wariness and calm self-confidence. He moved gracefully and with dignity, filling a room not by his physical dominance (as did Mao or De Gaulle) but by his air of controlled tension, steely discipline, and self-control, as if he were a coiled spring. He conveyed an easy casualness, which, however, did not deceive the careful observer. The quick smile, the comprehending expression that made clear he understood English without translation, the palpable alertness, were the features...