Word: callings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SAWHILL: I prefer to call it not a crisis, but a problem, arising from our growing dependence for oil on a politically unstable part of the world. We have failed to curtail imports, and in the short term we are completely at the mercy of the Middle East oil suppliers...
...call from the Oval Office customarily comes at about 4 o'clock. "Ready to jog?" asks Jimmy Carter. Rosalynn Carter usually is. The presidential couple, in jogging attire, set out together on a course around the White House South Lawn (measured one memorable afternoon at a quarter-mile by panting correspondents who trailed Lyndon Johnson for 18 laps on an improbable mobile press conference). The Johnson quarter-mile is not the only Carter family run. They couple-jogged in Cairo and Jerusalem on recent visits abroad. Last week at Camp David, Rosalynn reached a running high. Trailed...
...rejection was what led the Irwins to file suit. "It's sad that it had to come to this," says Ronald Irwin, "but years were going by and nothing was happening. For Tommy, it is already late." Indeed the Irwins soon received a supporting phone call from a teacher, herself the mother of a gifted child, who warned, "There is serious danger that such children can be permanently damaged by the time they are eight...
Garry Wills calls himself a conservative, out of convenience. He would rather call himself a "convenientist," a citizen always willing to convene with his countrymen for the public good...
...matter what the student mood before the occupation, it is clear that Pusey's decision to call in Cambridge and suburban police to remove the demonstrators galvanized the vast majority of the University into horrified protest. The eviction of the demonstrators, in which 250 were arrested and 75 injured, prompted a mass meeting at Memorial Church that called the first three-day strike of classes on April 10. Two thousand students--including many "moderates," who the day before had helped demonstrate against the SDS takeover, holding signs saying "SDS does not represent Harvard" --voted overwhelmingly to shut the University down...