Word: approached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once again confounded his critics and tempered his cam paign rhetoric by proposing to realign the previous Administration's antipoverty programs rather than cancel them wholesale. As New York's liberal Senator Jacob Javits observed, the message was far more important for its "positive approach and tone than for the rel atively few organization changes it makes." It was also a tribute to the coun sel of Nixon's chief adviser on urban affairs, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose persuasive voice was largely responsible for the President's early - and forceful -guarantee that the subject of poverty...
Even before Kennedy set that goal, NASA scientists, aerospace companies and independent research laboratories were locked in an often bitter debate over the most practical method of making a manned lunar landing. Top NASA officials, most of them trained in airplane development, had generally sided with a direct approach. They wanted a craft that could take off from earth, fly to a lunar landing and return to the earth...
...Empty-Chair Approach...
...empty-chair approach offers an obvious advantage to the interviewers, who can demolish a guest for inconsistencies, evasions or even outright untruths without having to do it to his face. If it seems rather unfair, the fact is that TV's panel interviewers only occasionally offer that sort of candid criticism while the guest is still around to fight back...
...water and Gravy Master. Graham guzzles the real stuff from a goblet throughout the program (in seeming violation of Article 3, Section 17 of the Broadcasters' Code). His other constant prop is an arch smirk. He prances onto the kitchen set the way Sugar Ray Robinson used to approach the ring, then pirouettes so that the tittering ladies in the studio audience can admire his costume du jour. He has 27 of them-black tie for a filet steak Washington, for example, and a kangaroo-skin bush jacket for less formal dishes. He opens with a bit of humor...