Word: hellos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...phone rang one evening last week in the Governor's mansion in Richmond, Va. "Hello, Governor," said the caller. "This is Ron Ziegler speaking from Air Force One." Republican Governor Linwood Holton, a longtime friend and supporter of Nixon, had trouble hearing because of the electronic noises in the background. But he recognized Ziegler's voice and the message was clear: the President wanted to see Holton at the White House at 10 a.m. the next day. Holton quickly canceled his other appointments and flew off to see the President...
...boat from the 'Cliffe (a small girls' college in Cambridge) met the young Harvard man, up for a day from the Yard (an esoteric prison camp, not to be confused with the expression "thirty feet long and a Yard wide," in which yard refers to a small green mammal). 'Hello," he said, "do you live here...
...interviewer, a tall thin woman who looked the epitome of New England clam chowder, didn't smile. "Hello," she said. "What was your class rank? How were your boards?" My transcript was sitting right under her upwardly mobile nose, but I answered timidly...
...arrived at the dilapidated Tourist Office, I found the door open but no one inside. I was tired and sat down to read a book I had with me. About half an hour later, a man in a coat and tie arrived smiled at me politely and said hello. I responded likewise and asked if he had a map of the city. He responded, "No speak English, sorry." I repeated the question in French, which he understood. He seemed surprised at my question and answered, in French, that I could find such things as maps of the city...
...senior administrators at Harvard and M.I.T. Either their normal responsibilities or their normal kindness led them to return calls and actually to do what they said they would. Two Very Important Professors have been unfailingly kind, and several others have paused in their hectic courses to say "hello." I have attended two good and enjoyable seminars...