Word: herded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...current value to the President was his role in the Dominican crisis. From the first, he was in the thick of it. He took charge of a high-level committee of Pentagon, State Department and CIA men that met every morning for weeks in his Situation Room to ride herd on day-by-day developments in Santo Domingo. It was Bundy who came up with the idea of establishing a U.S. "line of communication" as a buffer between rebel and junta forces in the city...
...roads are lined with their rusting skeletons. Birds in the surrounding bush fall silent when they pass, and drivers of lesser vehicles pull over to the side in terror. In all of West Africa there is no more frightening sight than a herd of wide-open mammy wagons, stuffed to the rafters with merchants, housewives, babies, calabashes and live chickens, careening toward the next town at full stampede...
...full, untrammeled, seething life in the free world. For him as for his friends, the yardstick of beauty was freedom." Personal freedom, he says, "is the one unarguable good on earth. The Communists have put forward another: not man, but the collectivity, not the individual, but the herd. What the West and the whole free world are trying to prevent is man being turned back into a communized, anthropomorphic...
...Queen Chinee. Eccentricity was first nature to a Sitwell. Edith's potty papa, for instance, tried to chirk up the landscape of his 5,000-acre estate in Derbyshire by painting blue Chinese ideographs on a herd of white cows. "Poor little 'E' " came along, and he decided to redecorate his gangling and disjointed daughter. When she was eleven he fitted her from head to foot with orthopedic braces designed to realign her physique-not omitting a steel clamp that gripped her nose and was "regulated by a lock-and-key system...
...talked in the Yard of Ale, a woman in the next booth suddenly began to argue with her male companion in a shrill boozy voice that carried from one end of the restaurant to the other. The manager glided over and tried to herd them out the door. The man, ashen with embarrassment, insisted, "I don't know this woman, I've never seen her before in my life." "You're my husband and you know it," she whined. "We've got three children at home and the freezer's empty. How am I supposed to get home? I haven...