Word: knolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ever had. [F.D.R.] just sat there and told me of some of what he regarded as the real problems facing the world now. I just couldn't get over thinking of what I was listening to, and then he would stop and say, 'You see that knoll over there? That's where I did this-or-that.' He would interrupt himself, you know. And we just sat there and looked...
...strangest "arms bazaar" that TIME Correspondent Bruce van Voorst had ever seen was a collection of grimy peasant tents spread out on a dusty knoll outside the town of Mahabad, in the Kurdish mountains of western Iran. There, a clientele of mercenaries and international agents milled about, examining Israeli-made UZI automatics, Chinese and Soviet AK-47s, boxes of grenades, pre-World War II Czech-made Brno rifles and spanking new U.S. Colt .45 automatics. "For the serious customer," says Van Voorst, "a salesman would casually discharge a few rounds into a nearby hillside...
Breuer received many of the highest honors the profession can bestow in his half-century-long career, including the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects in 1978. In May the G.F.I. Knoll International Corporation sponsored a conference in his honor...
After a break for lunch. Miller spoke: he quoted Shakespeare. And the weekend closed with a 45-minute speech by Brzezinksi, who told the assembled guests of Knoll. "If the Middle Eastern region becomes destablized or controlled by an adversary the scales of history will be tipped." He explained that American currently has a "no-fallback position" on the Persian Gulf, adding. "We are faced with another power over which we do not have strategic superiority--I will not say that we are inferior, but the relationship of power is ambiguous and that is a novel situation...
...Knoll official said yesterday that Brzezinski's speaker's fee for the symposium...