Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ullman went out the door, the President stopped him. "We ought to sit down and discuss this," he said. A few days later Ullman went unnoticed in the side door of the White House for an hour's conversation with his old Hill colleague. Ford went over his program. Ullman said he just could not agree that Ford's way was right. There ought to be quotas, a gas tax, a 90-day delay on the import fee. He had given all that serious thought, the President responded, but he had decided the other route was best. Ullman...
...intense. So many job seekers want to enlist in the armed forces that recruiters have raised admission standards, and the Air Force even turns down some men with master's degrees. All over the U.S. employers find they can fill jobs that pay only $2 or $2.25 an hour for gas station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma of "overqualification." Marge Johnston...
...ACTION in John Hersey's contribution to the "day-in-the-life" genre covers one hour of Sam's life in line. The rest of the puzzle comes through in Hersey's mastery of the flashback, and even more so in the mind-paragraphs he uses to separate recalled scenes from conversations with fellow petitioners...
...THIS YEAR'S seniors have learned anything from Watergate, they have learned that Watergate lecturers rarely have anything to say, and certainly aren't likely to say it for less than the $25,000 an hour H.R. "Call me Bob" Haldeman will receive from CBS. So we can forget some of the current stars of the lecture circuit: John W. Dean III, Ronald L. "Over-There-Is-the-Hippopotamus" Ziegler, Bob-Woodward-and-Carl-Bernstein, and Rabbi Baruch Korff. And although Lieut. William L. "Rusty" Calley has now hit the lecture tour as well, even color-slides from Mylai would...
Brother Blue is not a French Surrealist, but a "storvteller" who's been featured on Eric Jackson a wee hours show on WBCH in recent weeks WBCN is quite stupid to do this, both Brother Blue and Jackson himself have low deep voices that put me, at least to sleep--preciously what I don't need at 4 a.m. (Which is when Brother Blue comes on). He might be less soporific in person, at a relatively early hour (11:59 p.m.), In the Currier House Senior Common Room Saturday night...