Word: brink
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day, Spiro's longest day, included a luncheon meeting of New York builders. Even on the brink of ruin, Agnew could not resist opening with the bitter jest that he had considered holding a "provocative discussion on the relationship of architects and engineers to the political fund-raising process." Later in the afternoon Spiro Agnew met as Vice President with President Nixon for the last time. For 40 minutes, the two men were alone in the Oval Office, sitting in chairs beside the fireplace beneath a painting of George Washington. When they were done talking about the bargain...
...Long Winter of Henry Aaron. NBC news examines the life and times of the greatest active ballplayer, Hammerin' Hank, who stands on the brink of breaking baseball's unbeatable record. Includes film of homers 700-713 and more importantly, discussions with Henry Aaron, the overlooked hero. CH. 4. 10 p.m. Color...
...play offers no new insight and makes no clear point. It pushes nostalgia to the brink of extinction. Queen Mother Mary (Eileen Herlie) is a starchy matriarch with a cast-iron devotion to duty. Edward (George Grizzard) is a kind of superannuated adolescent with vague notions of modernizing monarchy. As for the Duke (Patrick Horgan) and Duchess (Ruth Hunt) of York, they caterwaul incessantly about not having had enough on-the-job training to assume the reigns of empire...
Only Prime Minister Gandhi herself seemed to be unaware of this. She devoted her speech to criticizing farmers for hoarding, middlemen for gouging, black-marketeers and those who patronize them. For the food shortages that have pushed millions to the brink of starvation and caused widespread riots and looting, she offered shallow explanations, blaming the weather rather than mismanagement by India's central and state governments. Perhaps it was not surprising that Blitz, a rambunctious left-wing weekly, began its Independence Day editorial with the question...
...tear it down." They are under little pressure to do so. After years of being ostracized, East Germany is currently enjoying international acceptance. It is about to become a member of the United Nations, and it has already received diplomatic recognition from 89 countries. The U.S. is on the brink of establishing relations. A State Department delegation will arrive in East Berlin shortly to discuss, among other things, the location of a U.S. embassy. One possible site (on land already owned by the U.S.): directly behind the Brandenburg Gate, abutting the Berlin Wall...