Word: arming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the President offered his arm to U.P.I. Reporter Helen Thomas, she wrote in a first-person, "I-danced-with-the-President" story, she was so flustered that she blurted: " 'Mr. President, the chandeliers are bright tonight.' " This was a reference to Johnson's drive to cut down on the White House light bill. "He didn't smile," said Reporter Thomas. "I guess it was the wrong thing...
...house-hungry, comfort-starved Alaska, Shangri-La is a place called POW. Officially, POW is the 400-acre Port of Whittier, located on an arm of ice-free Prince William Sound and back-dropped by the glaciated peaks of the Chugach Mountains, which provide some of the world's wildest, most breathtaking scenery...
...escort fits by bustling hatless and coatless in the wind and rain across 43rd Street to shake hands with well-wishers behind police barricades. "What are you trying to do," demanded one concerned woman as Johnson approached, "scare everybody?" Johnson responded with a hearty "Hi, honey," and grasped her arm. Later he met with the New York President's Club-Democrats who have kicked in $1,000 a year or more to party coffers in a presidential campaign. Seeking support for his war on poverty, Johnson remarked dryly: "A nation that cannot take care of the many...
Cage's mechanical maestro had a diamond-shaped head perched on a 6-ft. pedestal, with a single arm rigged to make one complete revolution in eight minutes, the duration of the piece. It was the crowning gimmick of what had once seemed like an intriguing idea: a Philharmonic avant-garde festival...
Gunnoe, now a senior, played midfield as a freshman and sophomore but switched to attack last season when coach Bruce Munro needed someone to replace All-American Grady Watts. Captain of his freshman team, Gunnoe manuevers a lacrosse stick as if it were an extension of his arm...