Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resister became the center of an international incident last week. The scene was the tall, marble Peace Arch just north of Elaine, Wash., which marks the border between the U.S. and Canada. One afternoon a car drove past the arch and its surrounding gardens and rolled to a halt beneath the portico of the U.S. customs building. The customs official on duty routinely noted the car's license number, then punched it into his computer-which is part of the Treasury Emergency Communication System and is tied into the Federal Bureau of Investigation's national crime computers. Almost...
There are events that spark the fire beneath the seeming mask of indifference to the world of jockdom. A winning team or a big game can turn that quiet evening out with the team into an orgy...
...tour, a stubby black caddie with a pot-belly big enough to hold fifty practice balls lumbered over from the putting green. He was wearing one of the insufferably hot powder blue jump suits that are mandatory for caddies at Pleasant Valley, a white Houston Open golf cap, and, beneath his cap, a blue and white polka-dotted scarf that gave him a sort of piratical appearance. He looked at me rather suspiciously for a moment, then introduced himself as "Killer," and told me he remembered caddying for me back in Houston when I was about "this high...
...players and their caddies had to exit the 17th green. "The man who leaves this green with the lowest score is gonna win the tournament," I said to a red-faced, red-eyed young man with a potbelly and glasses and a Budweiser flop hat who was sitting beneath the ropes...
...crisis, how resilient our system proved itself to be, how Congress rose to the challenge, how the transition was carried out so orderly. We are going to be engaging in a good deal of ego boosting about what fine people we are. At the same time, beneath the surface, there is a bit of Watergate in all of us. Postwar America has been an era of "get where you can as fast as you can." While it is not corruption in the financial sense, it is an excessive personal ambition. Thus I think that the whole Watergate experience has been...