Word: grounded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flood TIME'S mailbox are careful and serious, often well-reasoned. Even those who nominate themselves are usually quite sincere. "You have my photograph in your files," wrote a man from Manhattan. "It is that blurred composite picture showing a man trying to keep his ear to the ground, his eye on the future and his chin up." There is always a group of loyal wives, like the woman from Florida who nominated her husband -"on behalf of all husbands and fathers who, though part of the establishment, set an example of honesty, integrity and purposeful endeavor for their...
...trend is the other way. Bender said in 1961, "We now have a much larger proportion of middle and upper-middle income candidates but have lost ground relatively, and probably absolutely, among the really low income families...
Witnesses to the accident stated that Nagy and Miss Gibbs were walking on the sidewalk when a Yellow Cab Co, taxi hit them, throwing Nagy to the ground and carrying Miss Gibbs on the hood until it finally stopped almost one block away next to the Lampoon building, Miss Gibbs shattered the cab's windshield...
...youth in Atlanta, Dickey's ef forts were mostly in outdoor sports and music. He still considers the north Georgia hills his "spiritual ground. My people are all hillbillies. I'm only second-generation city," he drawls. During World War II, he was a combat flier on some 100 missions in Black Widow night fighters over the Pacific. He later wrote about this experience in his poem, The Firebombing...
None of the oil is likely to reach U.S. markets until 1971. The companies and the Alaskan state government are still mulling over ways to move it. The companies prefer a pipeline to a relatively ice-free port like Valdez. The line would have to weather destructive ground heaves caused by summer thaws and winter freezes and could cost $500 million or more. Alaska's Governor Walter J. Hickel is pushing his longtime dream of extending the Alaska Railroad beyond its present Fairbanks terminal all the way to the Arctic Sea. Washington's Department of Transportation, which runs...