Word: columnist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When he accompanied President Ford to China in 1975, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was trailed by the customary entourage of diplomatic correspondents, television commentators and syndicated columnists. When Kissinger disclosed that he would be returning to the People's Republic as a private citizen last month, some of his former traveling companions asked to go along. Only one was chosen: Columnist Joseph Kraft...
...week called on him to enter the race, the Senator has made personal telephone calls to reassert his unavailability. And yet at the same time he repeatedly offers coy hints and insinuations that he might still become a candidate. A couple of months ago, the Senator told a favorite columnist in Boston that he would go after the nomination if Carter did not seek reelection, and the writer published it just that way. When one of Kennedy's staffers rushed in to tell him about the story and asked about releasing a denial, Kennedy waved him off. "I said...
...page (about 1,200 words), and they had to be submitted in time to meet deadlines. If these strictures were met, the editor offered a bonus: Thomas' pieces would be printed, with no changes or revisions, exactly as he had written them. "That was irresistible," recalls the columnist...
...Whose founder and only candidate, Columnist Auberon Waugh, is running against Liberal M.P. Jeremy Thorpe in his North Devon constituency. Thorpe's trial, on charges of conspiracy and incitement to murder a man who claimed to be the M.P.'s lover, has been postponed until after the election...
...history of the New York Yankees is virtually the history of baseball," New York Times columnist Dave Anderson writes in introducing this shameless horn-blower of a book. After those 11 years, you feel like blowing your horn; bask in the hubris, regreet old friends. Watch Babe Ruth's astonishing 60 home runs in 1927, and Roger "Bwana" Maris's 61 in '61; follow the Yankee Clipper through his 56 game hitting streak; trace a young Mickey Mantle's blasts till they go out of sight while Manager Casey Stengel, at your elbow, credits the incredible distance of the shot...