Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile in Washington, the most dramatic blackout since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis saw, in the words of Diplomatic Correspondent William Mader, the same "intense expenditure of shoe leather, seemingly endless knocking on doors, convoluted probing and painstaking mosaic work." Over at the Pentagon, the messages were even fewer and farther between. "People were not talking because they just didn't know," reported Correspondent John Mulliken. "At one point a three-star Army general said rather plaintively, 'I was left out of Son Tay [the U.S. raid on the North Vietnamese prison camp], and I am embarrassed...
...would, said President Nixon, provide "a new balance of responsibility and power in America." What is more, it would have an expansionary effect on the economy, turning unemployment around and helping to end the recession. With these audacious predictions, Nixon signed and sent to Congress the two green leather volumes that set forth his proposed budget for fiscal 1972, which begins July 1. Total proposed federal outlays: $229.2 billion, an increase of $16.4 billion over fiscal 1971. Prospective deficit: $11.6 billion, on top of an estimated shortfall of $18.6 billion for the current year...
...guests sat comfortably in the big leather chairs of the White House Roosevelt Room until the President jolted them with a question: "Is there anybody here who will defend the status quo? Please stand." None of the 28 Washington lobbyists from such powerful industries as oil, coal and trucking did; optimistic presidential aides interpreted the silence as an indication that Richard Nixon had scored a few more points in his own intense lobbying for his domestic reforms...
...Russia's best poets, was touched with such divine madness. Born in 1891, he became an Acmeist, one of a group of poets who reacted against the excess vagaries of the Symbolists by celebrating the palpability of things in clear, earthy language. Although the son of a Jewish leather merchant, Mandelstam was most at home in classical Christian humanism. A rose was a rose because of its petals and perfume, not because it stood for something else...
Certainly nothing could be more absurd than to hire a small army of godlike brutes, gifted with fantastic speed, coordination, grace, and strength, to move a leather ball up and down the gridiron. This very absurdity, however, serves to intensify the spectator's awareness of the beauty of the game. It is the old story of art for art's sake. Football is a sort of bone-crunching ballet, with an improvised and unpredictable choreography. Like dancers, the players acquire a large repertoire of movements, then spontaneously combine them as they go along...