Word: johnson
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...beneath federal land that has been set aside for recreational purposes, and the Sierra Club and other conservationist groups have been making it difficult to open that acreage to coal mining. Other Western environmentalists also are appalled. "It's an effort to New Jerseyize the West," complains Carolyn Johnson, head of the Colorado Open Space Council mining workshop...
...male. Carter's aides argued against giving a job to Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan because she had no administrative experience. But the talent hunters were willing to overlook similar gaps in the backgrounds of some men who were tapped. Although he was a top staff man for Lyndon Johnson, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano had never managed anything but his desk before becoming the boss of 145,700 people in his current post...
Milton Eisenhower, Samuel Houston Johnson, and Donald Nixon; dull college president, drunk gambler, and shady businessman respectively didn't have people tripping over each other trying to get their autographs...
There is something vital about one-to-one confrontations in sports. The subtle tension involved when Nolan Ryan challenges Reggie Jackson with a high, hard one, when Gus Johnson challenges Dave DeBusschere with a baseline drive, when Roscoe Tanner challenges Jimmy Connors with his big serve, is the kind of thing that makes athletic competition great...
...literary Senator selected the Granite State's primary to challenge former president Lyndon B. Johnson in the winter of 1968, and he scored a startling upset that political pollsters, who generally read computer printouts more carefully than sonnets, failed to predict...