Word: earliest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florida's Key Biscayne for much of the week, Nixon considered the most important of some 3,000 federal posts he must fill-jobs ranging in rank and responsibility from chauffeur to the twelve Cabinet jobs. Nixon will not announce any appointments until late next week at the earliest, but speculation was inevitably growing about the makeup of his Administration's top echelon...
...order it is as follows: the President of the University and Fellows; Board of Overseers; Faculty Committee on Athletics; football squad; football "H" men; college faculty members (full or associate professors); undergraduates; Varsity Club members; college alumni (earliest class being given preference); graduate school students; graduate school alumni; and people with no connection whatever to the University...
...guitar player with a high school hillbilly band in Queens, N.Y. Next he studied at Boston's New England Conservatory of Music for two years, then switched to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (he still plays the guitar as a hobby). His earliest paintings were hard-edged and geometric attempts to present Bach's counterpoint in visual terms. When Poons moved to New York in 1958, he discovered Mondrian-in particular, the syncopated squares of Broadway Boogie Woogie and Victory Boogie Woogie...
Technocrats. "They" are the young. By 1980, They have taken over the country from bomb-happy right-wingers. Justly loathing the Establishment, fearing the infection of its diseased cultural tradition, They have become sensation-bound technocrats. One of their earliest decrees is that everyone over 50 must live apart from society. Most of the aged are consigned to public institutions to await death-from either natural causes or pills and injections called "compilers." A few old folks who have made notable contributions in the arts or sciences are permitted to live on in their own homes, provided they...
Since the Phantoms will not be delivered until next year at the earliest, the chief immediate effect was political. The Israelis welcomed Johnson's move as a symbol of U.S. support in the face of a buildup of Arab forces. For the same reason, the Arabs reacted with fury. Still to be determined was how the sale would affect what a U.S. diplomat called a "small but precious momentum for peace" that has been building up at the United Nations...