Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...down the Boxers who had been attacking diplomatic missions in Peking. It was in part to protect American lives that Dwight Eisenhower dispatched Marines to Lebanon in 1958, and Lyndon Johnson sent them to the Dominican Republic in 1965. In Washington's most recent use of force, Gerald Ford ordered U.S. units to retake the merchant ship Mayaguez, which had been seized by Cambodia's new Communist regime...
DeLorean alleges that in the early 1960s, Chevrolet had two moles working in Ford's product-planning area. "For a price," he says, they "passed on new product information...
...promote "freedom of exchange." Men on the order of Pierre Trudeau and Valerie Giscard D'Estaing--who were then on the verge of international prominence--attended the seminar, discussed world affairs with foreign ministers from India and Pakistan, and heard lectures from American intellectual heavyweights like David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences, historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38 and McGeorge Bundy, then dean of the Faculty...
...race began with a blistering pace set by Bickford, who split at the mile in 4:21, 35 yards ahead of Harvard's Murphy. The leaders slowed down considerably in the next mile, as Treacy moved up on Bick-ford: and the two ran together through the two-mile split at 9:03, about 75 yards ahead of the rest of the field...
...Carter has the ingredients of a bad campaign, which already shows signs of descending into farce. Carter delivers pork barrel packages to primary states--coincidentally--around election time. He makes thudding insinuations about panic in a crisis. Kennedy castigates Carter for decontrolling home heating oil prices. Fine, except that Ford did it and Kennedy voted for it. Petty bickering breaks out between the two camps over whose version of the facts is more distorted; the issue of energy costs is trivialized. Veteran campaign watchers are predicting that this will be one of the nastiest campaigns in American history...