Word: gretchen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gretchen G. Berggren, assistant professor of population sciences in the Faculty of Public Health, moderated the debate, sponsored by the Harvard Hunger Action Project...
...largest dinner in White House history was also a once-in-a-lifetime test for White House Social Secretary Gretchen Poston. Presidential aides had worked up a guest list that included, in addition to the Egyptian and Israeli delegations, past or potential political supporters of Jimmy Carter (politics is never far from the mind of a White House aide), Arab and Jewish leaders in the U.S., business and labor moguls, congressional leaders and members of the press corps. Poston stayed up all night Sunday working out the seating arrangements at the 134 tables. Secretaries were frantically typing the 15-page...
...revenge. In fact, as the plot wanders from Eisenstein's home to Orlofsky's ballroom to the local jail, you realize that it's all just an excuse for the dance music. In the famous trio "So muss allein ich bleiben" ("I must remain alone, then"), Rosalinda--whom Gretchen Johnson plays with vocal agility but no sense of style--begins lamenting her parting with husband Einstein. But she, Eisenstein, and Alfred the mad Italian tenor keep breaking out of the mock tragic music into a perky little waltz, as if to tip the audience off that nothing happening...
...postponed or reared by proxy, and there can be conflicts over moving to take better jobs. That is why quite a few of the new elite feel like Van MacNair, 34, a Washington tennis shops manager. He insists that he would like to earn enough to give his wife Gretchen, 31, a chance not to work; but Gretchen, who works for a mortgage group, maintains that "a couple like us cannot get by without two incomes...
...appointed Carter's top speechwriter; the latest raise put his gross up to $45,000. Says one former Carter staffer: "That is quite a salary to pay a speechwriter for a President who throws away prepared texts and ad-libs." Among Rosalynn Carter's aides, Social Secretary Gretchen Poston, 44, and Personal Assistant Madeline MacBean, 40, each earn $42,800-a bit plush for such fringe jobs...