Word: behinder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter himself told several guests that he felt he had lost the touch with the country that he had developed during the 1976 campaign, and longed to get it back. He will change the way he conducts the presidency, he said. He will spend less time behind his desk poring over briefing papers, more traveling around the nation meeting people. He mused that he might try some other tactics, perhaps making a regular practice of "having seven or eight Governors in to spend the night with me at the White House and just talk over how we can cooperate...
Carter's efforts to break through the isolation he had suddenly felt were behind the President's surprise visits to the Fishers and the Porterfields. Aides say those calls were planned at the same time as the summit itself; Carter wanted to sample the views of middle-class citizens after spending a week with the nation's elite. But the plans were kept so secret that the hosts had no idea how or why they were singled out. And the White House declined...
...help Nkomo. It's going to help ZAPU. Perhaps $100,000. Sure. There's a song that Bob Marley sings called "No Woman, No Cry." It's a sentimental, almost maudlin song. It is about a poor man who must leave his home to escape poverty. He leaves behind a woman who shared his poverty, his street fighting, his love for life. But the song promises that he will return one day. In that song are the lines...
...resurfaced. With the score now tied 4-4, Jim Rice reached first and Yaz walked to put men on first and second. Bob Watson then singled to right, driving in Rice and putting the Sox in the lead for the first time. The crowd erupted. A few seats behind me, a teenager set off a pack of firecrackers and was subsequently arrested by Fenway's overbearing security guards. It turned out that Watson's hit was all the Sox needed as they went...
When they get there, they might want to switch on the experiments left behind by the Apollo astronauts. Sending data back to earth about moonquakes, solar wind levels, and so on, they were still operating in September 1977 when it was decided that we couldn't afford to pick up the signals. So the instruments were turned off. Only a few scientists were upset; no one else cared one way or the other. Welcome to the Space...