Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President Johnson...
...golfers were severely handicapped by the absence of Alex Vik, Spence Fitzgibbons, and Brett Johnson, who anchor down the first, third, and fourth spots on the team ladder. Vik and Fitzgibbons had an hourly in Anthropology 184, "Geography of the Tropics," a subject quite essential to every golfer who occasionally finds himself searching for the elusive ball amidst latifundia previously untrod...
...notable result of Carter's scientific bent: the budget for basic research has gone up 11% to begin the absolutely crucial journey back to full respectability in scientific knowledge. Both Nixon and Johnson not only distrusted eggheads in the scientific world but also cut their influence and money. Maybe part of the problem was the ineptitude of these two in the world of machines. Nixon could not run a tape recorder. Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wristwatch and once had to halt his automobile to solve the problem of turning on the windshield squirter...
Freelancing has never been the gentlest of callings. Samuel Johnson in his 1755 Dictionary immortalized the ink-stained wretches who lived on London's Grub Street turning out literary piecework. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money," said Dr. Johnson, who nonetheless spent most of his life in poverty. In the platinum age of periodicals, roughly from the 1920s to the 1950s, it was possible for man to live by word alone, provided he sold it to a magazine. The Saturday Evening Post, Look, Collier's, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion and Coronet routinely...
...changing nature of financial aid to medical students could be a major factor in the decline, according to Johnson. The government is phasing out aid on the basis of need, putting emphasis on aid in return for national service, under the National Health Service Corps...