Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President, but in the nation's capital as well as in the heartland, he was honored as if he had. Not only was his body flown to Washington on the plane that had carried the bodies of John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, but it also lay in state beneath the dome of the Capitol Rotunda on the same bier that had held Abraham Lincoln and J.F.K...
...sympathetic when she saw Nixon, and held his hand warmly. So did Majority Leader Robert Byrd. Almost with eagerness, Carter, Ford and Nixon followed Baker into an anteroom for a historic picture of the three. In a few minutes it was time for these people to take their places beneath the Capitol dome to honor Hubert Humphrey...
...acres. Teddy Roosevelt's children played around it. Mourners leaned on it when they brought John Kennedy's body back to the White House. The televi sion journalists knew a friend when they saw one: John Chancellor, Dan Rather, Frank Reynolds, Tom Brokaw - all established outdoor studios beneath the kindly arms of this seasoned Ulmus americana...
Then there are vagaries to which the cruise business is subject. Tropical storms can be almost as devastating as the sudden breakdown of a ship. Many Caribbean islands are politically combustible beneath their Edenic exteriors. And the industry is periodically plagued by bad publicity every time a shipload of vacationers returns home doubled over with diarrhea. In a one-year period that ended last Thanksgiving, 73 cruise ships underwent a total of 625 U.S. Government sanitation-standards inspection tests -and failed the tests two-thirds of the time. Unfortunately there are no laws on the books that would allow Washington...
...after Lieut, (j.g.) Roger Staubach, U.S.N. (ret.) took away his command in the huddle. It was in Dallas under Coach Tom Landry that Morton polished his skills in running a complex offense. Much of the sophisticated strategy that marks modern football was devised in Landry's fertile mind. For beneath the ubiquitous hat a size too small, behind the stony visage, resides a genius of the game. As a player-coach in the 1950s, Landry refined the 4-3 defense, using a slide rule to work out the odds on given plays in given situations. His Cowboys play the most...