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Word: fords (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When the President gave his big speech he sounded like a Baptist minister, declared Cliff. He's the greatest President we've had since Nixon, offered Lou. Wait a minute, came another voice. What about Ford? He wouldn't like that. There was a little more Sanka and waves more of laughter among old friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The View from the Ideal Caf | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...planned to teach a course at Harvard on the press and politics, write a book about his 40-year career as a journalist, consult two or three days a week on various Time Inc. projects, serve on the boards of the Washington Star, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc., and the Ford Foundation, among others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Adviser to the President | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

This is the kind of leadership toward which we are moving, a leadership of relatively anonymous people. That is the kind we have in organizations now. Fifty years ago, everyone knew who was the head of Ford, IBM or General Motors. Now nobody knows; what you get is collectivity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cry for Leadership | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...like an item from The Whole Earth Catalog. Brown possesses a disco Jesuit allure and what seems to be a gut instinct for the politics of the future, but has far to go before he persuades the nation he is anything but a welterweight opportunist. Ronald Reagan and Gerald Ford are ambassadors from the past. Other Republicans such as Howard Baker and George Bush suffer, like the President, from an absence of stature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cry for Leadership | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...friended by a lonesome bank robber, roasted by the desert sun, frozen by mountain storms, captured by Indians, and from sea to shining sea, he will cause wise men to marvel at his unparalleled and in exhaustible nitwittedness. With Gene Wilder as the woodenheaded rabbi and Harrison Ford as the lovable bank robber, what could go wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Blazing Bagels | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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