Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Attempting to deal with a crisis that was only dimly understood, the White House, according to a staffer, "went into a state of absolute red alert." Jack Watson, presidential assistant for intergovernmental affairs, served as White House liaison with the NRC and Three Mile Island. If an administrative snag developed, Watson intervened. "There was an imperative need for flexibility and immediate response," says Watson. "As a general rule, this was followed surprisingly well...
...Johnson and junior jack-of-all-trades Sue Harper led the Harvard rout. Harper, the meet's top point-earner with 13, won the 100- and the 400-meter hurdles, tying her old University record in the first event and setting a new mark of 1:13.6 in the second...
...anticipated a lot of negative reaction when I went to talk over my proposal with Jack Reardon," Jackson, who missed the 1978 football campaign (he plays middle guard) due to torn cartilage in his left knee, said. But he impressed the athletic director with a thorough knowledge of insurance requirements for the rustic IAB, the University's rules on the matter, and an itemized cost breakdown for the benefit. Jackson also had on-the-job experience organizing a Labor Day boxing benefit in Erie, Pa., with Harvard's U.S. Marine Corps champion boxer Ron Di Nicola...
There were doubts and hints of problems ahead in the words they spoke; yet there was also a true eloquence in their short pleas. Carter had not finished writing his text until a few minutes before the ceremony. His son Jack, who had come up from Georgia the night before, had brought part of an essay on peace by the Rev. Walker L. Knight of Atlanta. The President was so taken with the thoughts that he melded them into his speech ("Peace, like war, is waged"), and then touched off a desperate effort to track down the Rev. Mr. Knight...
...charcoal-gray granite building that serves as corporate headquarters]," sighed CBS Veteran Hughes Rudd. "I feel sad." Cracked Cronkite: "I wished him a reasonable amount of luck." Observed CBS's old-pro Newsman Douglas Edwards: "It's the best thing that's happened to NBC since Jack Benny...