Word: displays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ashes. Each made a low, formal bow, the traditional Japanese gesture of respect, except Carter, who barely nodded his head. But the Japanese, not expecting a newcomer to follow protocol, were not upset by Carter's performance. Later, however, Carter clearly startled Ohira's widow with a display of American informality while paying a call on her. He greeted her with a kiss, then slipped his arm around her waist when leading her into the Ohira family home...
...weeks ago the store front on West Congress St. that now boasts brilliant red and white bunting and the omniscient countenance of John Bayard Anderson looked like many others in Detroit--broken glass, beer bottles and splintered plywood showcased behind a smudged display window...
Last week's action culminated a long and arduous political fight. Senator Edward Kennedy first began holding hearings almost three years ago about the possibility of freeing the industry from some ICC rules, and President Carter sent his bill to Congress on June 21, 1979. In an unusual display of accord, the two rivals both lobbied hard for the measure. But the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations fought it. The A.T.A. spent more than $1 million on a public relations campaign to convince legislators that deregulation would mean increased prices, wasted gasoline and decreased service to small...
Among Hazzard's many strengths as a novelist, none is more dazzling than her ability to display the inner world of her characters in a few lines of lucid, supple, periodic prose. In Grace and Caro, "a vein of instinct sanity opened and flowed: a warning that every lie must be redeemed in the end . . . In their esteem for dispassion they began to yearn, perverse and unknowing, towards some strength that would, in turn, disturb that equilibrium and sweep them to higher ground...
...Cosell might pontificate, "Another disgusting display of exploiting national coverage to gain attention. These people have yet to recognize the distinction between liberty and license...