Word: hourly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After conferring for an hour, the Pope and the President greeted 6,000 guests gathered on the South Lawn for the afternoon's second major reception. Here Carter contributed one of the most moving moments of his presidency. In his best preacher's tone, he said to John Paul: "As human beings each acting for justice in the present ? and striving together for a common future of peace and love ? let us not wait so long for ourselves and for you to meet again. Welcome to our country, our new friend." Echoing the President, the crowd burst into...
However, the plane didn't want to go anymore than we did. After a half hour of watching the pilot stroke this 727's nose and pet it on the wings, we finally boarded, set to touch down in Syracuse 50 minutes later--just in time to miss the opening gun in Ithaca...
...pregnancy. "The last couple of three-mile runs," she said, "I came in slower than everyone else." After Jacobson was transferred to Camp Pendleton, Calif., as executive officer of an ordnance and maintenance company, she worked hard until the day before she gave birth. Her labor lasted just three hours. Said she: "I credit that to the great physical conditioning of the Marine Corps." Another military mother, Captain Diane Cook, 30, of Dover Air Force Base, Del, worked twelve-hour shifts until a week before her daughter was born. "I had morning sickness," she said, "but I arranged to have...
...feat not managed by everybody with equal success. On the return to the White House, Nixon invited his convivial colleagues to see the movie Patton. It was the second time he had so honored me. Inspiring as the film no doubt was, I managed to escape for an hour in the middle of it to prepare for the next day's NSC meeting...
...meeting ended at 12:20 p.m. on May 8. Nixon said he would make a final decision at 2 p.m., and asked Kissinger to bring the necessary papers to his Executive Office Building hideaway at that hour for signing...