Word: brokaw
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...luminescence in the Vienna Hilton, which housed most of the media contingent, sometimes was blinding. Cronkite and his wife Betsy strolled by. Heads craned, eyes brightened. That was just after John Chancellor had gone through and clustered spectators had nodded in recognition. Then Tom Brokaw was spied in a debonair pose on the winding staircase. And there were even some famous writers, like the legendary James B. ("Scotty") Reston, who trailed the aura of authority as they trod the byways of old Vienna in pursuit of drama...
...actionable. Radio stations across the country generally played uncensored interviews with the Congressmen who overheard Carter's statement. A few television newscasts, though, avoided mention of the indelicate word. Jim Ruddle, anchorman at Chicago's WMAQ-TV, used the term posterior, and Tom Brokaw of NBC'S Today show mumbled slyly about a "three-letter part of the anatomy that's somewhere near the bottom." CBS's Roger Mudd alluded to Carter's remark without quoting it directly, but a copy of the New York Post's anatomically correct front-page headline...
...system, a law requiring that new televisions be equipped with a V chip to help parents block out offensive programs, and a deal in which broadcasters agreed to provide three hours of educational children's television a week. In a televised forum on school violence on MSNBC with Tom Brokaw as cohost, after the Littleton tragedy last year, Gore startled his staff by blasting the network that ran the program for refusing to agree to the ratings system...
President Carter is a "victim of historical circumstances," and is not personally responsible for the problems which still beset the nation 15 months after he took office, Brokaw said. However, Brokaw said, his handling of the neutron bomb controversy was "amateurish...
...Brokaw's other duties include being stand-in for John Chancellor, anchorman for the NBC "Nightly News," a position Brokaw admitted he would like to hold. But Brokaw added that the position can be tedious, describing it as "putting on makeup and reading out loud...