Word: grew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning with a brief Carter-Begin meeting, followed by a Carter-Sadat huddle of more than an hour and a half. Sadat was unhappy at letting Begin off the hook by passing the issue to the Knesset, and Carter's aides waiting outside the President's pine-paneled study grew more and more worried. Then, at 4:30, Carter looked out the window and flashed the thumbs-up sign. They had a deal. Begin got his copies of the proposed agreements in his cabin, Birch, read them carefully and told his aides: "If this is it, we're going...
...successful summit in the Maryland mountains is not a cure for Carter's leadership problem. But surely it is a kind of achievement at the critical time needed to bring people a little closer to their President, to silence for the moment a lot of petty grievances that grew bigger than they should have THE WHITE HOUSE because of Carter's fumbling. It worked that way for John Kennedy in 1963, when after the Cuban missile crisis he successfully completed the nuclear test-ban treaty with the Soviet Union. And even Richard Nixon, never really...
...competition will further blur the marketing lines between the older travel-and-entertainment cards like American Express, which grew up specializing in hotels, airlines, rental cars and restaurants, and the bank cards that originally focused on local retail purchases. Citicorp and other big banks that have been moving into cards and checks on a nationwide scale argue that they have been forced to do so in self-defense, claiming they have lost a lot of consumer credit business since World War II to other loan suppliers, including not only the card firms but department-store charge accounts and the auto...
...take them out of the public library fast enough. Doc Savage, too, of course. But while my friends all know about Doc Savage, most of them have never heard of the Altsheler books. If Puzo wants to set up a small Altsheler memorial from little boys who grew up to be writers, I'm ready...
...Western mind. Strange-his remembering, like any well-told story, makes events seem as though they happened long ago, or in some time less place. A reader may be surprised now and then when the book brings a reminder that the author was born only in 1939 and grew up in contemporary Montana. Still, Ivan Doig's youth is good news. An ex-newspaperman living in Seattle, he has a lot of time remaining in which to remember and write.-Frank Trippett