Word: hards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ackerman's notion that the era of the wooden sailing ship might again be at hand. Ackerman gave up the pursuit of a doctorate in Middle English, Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman French at the University of Pennsylvania to build his ship. There is enough romance in the hard-nosed seaman that he sought out John Leavitt's widow, Virginia, and invited her to break the obligatory bottle of champagne over the ship's prow at the christening. She did, splashing it all over her face, dampening her snow white hair and proper navy blue dress...
...advisers are an odd mix. Vance and Brzezinski have never really got along or understood each other. It has to do with temperament: Vance is more cool, methodical, even slogging, than the nimble, aggressive Brzezinski. Though the Secretary in the past has been bitterly opposed to Brzezinski's hard-line approaches, he has remained curiously passive, allowing Brzezinski to acquire more and more power. The President has been accused (as Nixon was in the early days of Henry Kissinger) of creating a mini-State Department in the figure of his Security Adviser...
...soon obvious to Strauss that the hard-line approach was not going to work. First Begin, and then, to everybody's consternation, Sadat, ridiculed the President's proposal. Sadat nervously warned Strauss that all of Carter's success in the Middle East would be destroyed if the U.S. pushed any further on the Palestinian issue. Both leaders also viewed Carter as so politically weakened at home that they questioned his determination. Strauss, now convinced that the binding instructions had weakened his own credibility with Begin and Sadat, returned home angry at his rivals...
...more flesh. "Hi, I love you," he said over and over. Nobody who saw Carter's scratched and swollen hands or the lines of fatigue etching his face in the dawn at places like rain-drenched Lynxville Lock, Wis., could doubt that he was working at least as hard on this vacation as at the White House. But Carter obviously found the journey invigorating. On the bow deck as the Delta Queen paddled down the river, mostly at a stately 3 m.p.h., the President bobbed up at each toot from the flotilla of pleasure craft that escorted the Queen...
...board freely, but generally alone, though he and Rosalynn viewed the vessel's mild entertainments-a card-sharping exhibition and the movie Showboat-and shared drinks in the lounge one night with a group of Catholic retirees. Lois Paskett, a widow from St. Paul, bubbled, "I have a hard time getting to sleep just thinking I am on the same boat with the President." Nonetheless, by journey's end many passengers were grumbling about the noisy goings...