Word: dynamos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arabs also have a grudging respect for the man who has planned or supervised most of the improvements in the Old City for the past eleven years: Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek, 67. A pudgy, sometimes abrasive human dynamo, Kollek has a profound sense of the city's history; after the 1967 occupation of East Jerusalem, he was instrumental in preventing the Israeli government from tearing down the walls of the Old City. Since then, Kollek has built many parks, play grounds, community centers, libraries and clinics in East Jerusalem, thereby risking the charge by nationalist Israelis that...
...vital cogs in Cornell's attack are sprint-out style quarterback Jim Hofer and blithe tailback Joe Holland, who graduated last year but is still eligible because of his transfer status from Michigan. Holland has been a one-man dynamo so far with 369 yards carrying in 67 rushes, compared to 34 carries in all of last year. "Quite frankly," says Blackman, "we didn't expect that much from him because he just wasn't that impressive when he carried the ball last year...
Pepita, ostensibly a biography of Victoria's mother, offered a devastating portrait of Vita Sackville-West's own mother, a "pure undiluted peasant," whose tantrums made austere Knole echo like some Andalusian marketplace. Victoria, wrote her daughter, was "a powerful dynamo generating nothing," an imperious, high-strung woman given to firing her servants on a whim and more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen...
...dynamo of an executive who made such a mark in a 20-year career at International Business Machines Corp. that Jimmy Carter considered appointing her his Commerce Secretary before she took herself out of the running. Last week Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, 45, found something more to her liking. NBC President and Chief Executive Fred Silverman named her the network's chairman, succeeding Old Pro Julian Goodman, 56, who moves to chairman of the executive committee...
Because of his rambunctious style, Califano is a tempting target for nicknames. He has been called "Crazy Califano," "Mad, Mad Joe," "the Dynamo".and "the Boy Earthquake." He has also been described as "a loose cannon," and, contrarily, "a torpedo?point him in one direction and he goes." When the tobacco lobby, outraged by Califano's drive to keep young people from smoking, printed bumper stickers proclaiming, CALIFANO IS DANGEROUS TO MY HEALTH, some of the Secretary's subordinates proudly pasted them on their office walls...