Search Details

Word: driveways (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Troubles & Perquisite. As Roosevelt recovers and tries to learn to walk, a cameraman with a hand-held camera attempts to illustrate the ordeal by walking along the gravel driveway at Hyde Park photographing the ground in jerks, sways and clumsy lurches. Later, when Roosevelt becomes a gubernatorial candidate, the narrator points out that Republicans raised the cripple issue but Al Smith killed it, saying "A Governor does not have to be an acrobat." And what do you suppose leaps to the screen? A whole big top full of circus acrobats who swing and soar and throw triples for what seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Roosevelt Retrospective | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

Just two miles up the road from the LBJ spread, though, is Emil Klein's 167-acre ranch. There, a battered pickup truck sits in the driveway, wash hangs on the line, and an income of a few thousand a year is all that one can expect. In the grim days of the Depression and the Dust Bowl, the face of Texas that Lyndon knew best bore a close resemblance to Emil Klein's pinched place, and so he cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man Of The Year: Lyndon B. Johnson, The Prudent Progressive | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

Wasserman is worth more than $30 million in MCA stock, but he lives-frugally by some neighbors' standards-in a $400,000 one-bedroom house in Beverly Hills designed by Harold Lezitt. There is a Henry Moore beside the driveway, a Soutine on the dining-room wall, and a Bernard Buffet portrait of Wasserman himself, a gift from Alfred Hitchcock, in the foyer. Mrs. Wasserman sleeps in the bedroom. Wasserman sleeps on a couch in the study, where he gets up at 5 each morning and starts making phone calls to breakfasting subordinates in New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: A New Kind of King | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

...Condition Was Hopeless." Five minutes after the shooting, the presidential limousine screeched into the driveway of the Parkland Memorial Hospital. Vice President Johnson's car and two cars loaded with Secret Service men arrived almost simultaneously. Agent Clinton Hill removed his suit jacket and covered the President's head and chest to prevent photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...happened. He was very pale. He only told me he had shot at General Walker." Moreover, in Oswald's effects after the Kennedy assassination, officials found a map of Walker's neighborhood and three photographs?two showing the rear of Walker's home, the other an entrance to his driveway from a back alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: THE WARREN COMMISSION REPORT | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

Previous | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | Next