Word: blessing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politicians and officials ranged from outrage to "So what?" AFL-CIO President George Meany called it "so fantastic as to be almost beyond belief. God bless the blunderers at Watergate. If they hadn't been so clumsy, America would never have known about things like this." Declared former HEW Secretary Robert H. Finch, a longtime Nixon associate: "I'm literally astonished." Ousted Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel observed wryly that his problem was not being overheard at the White House but being heard at all. Nevertheless, he thought anybody talking to a President should be aware of any taping...
...shop, lock and stock--I don't think Gordon owned a barrel--for $600. Then, with the benefit of the Grolier's location, and Gordon's good will, he proposed to open Harvard Square's first porno book store. Gordon threw the damn fool out, God bless him, and went on running the shop till the day he died...
Editor Bryant, in an article, "The Church and the Homosexual," proposes that the church ordain gay ministers and bless "permanent and faithful" gay unions. But the article likely to cause the most furor is one by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, authors of Lesbian/ Woman. Among other controversial points, they raise an outlandish suggestion: that because lesbians have removed themselves from the "battle of the sexes," they are "the only women capable of loving...
Veteran Gunslinger John Wayne was on hand to pay homage, as was Sammy Davis Jr. Even Irving Berlin, just turned 85, joined in singing his own song, God Bless A merica...
...rest of my life for me. I was to become a respected thinker, win the Nobel Prize for Medicine, and die a fulfilled individual. I was shocked to learn this, but I wasn't the least bit thankful. Because my whole life, as he wrote it in God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, Slaughterhouse Five and then Breakfast of Champions had been dedicated to failure. Vonnegut even had me proclaim that I was "a representative of all the thousands of artists who devoted their entire lives to a search for truth and beauty--and didn't find doodley-squat...