Word: line
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knee-jerk hysterical reaction of conservatives reveals the narrow scope of their vision. Carter's recognition of the legitimacy of almost one-quarter of mankind has been roundly applauded by our allies. This act of statesmanship, which enhances the prospects of peace, is somewhat above the line of sight of ostriches. Jerry Fenney Windsor...
When Caroline Kennedy lived at the White House, she picked up the phone one night and Burns heard this request: "I want to talk to Santa Claus." Burns turned to a man in the telegraph room and asked for help. He got on the line with a jolly "Ho! Ho! Ho!" and a report from the North Pole for the five-year-old Caroline. A few minutes after Caroline hung up, the President's line was alight again. "Mary," asked a startled John Kennedy, "how did you do that...
Once, during Johnson's years, when the presidential light blinked there was banging on the line. Finally L.B.J. came on to explain that his grandson Patrick Lyndon Nugent "is breaking up the phone." Another time Johnson was cut off three times at the other end of his connection, and he rasped to Burns, "Honey would you mind reading a magazine and letting me finish my call...
...Middle East today." In the 1950s a ranking U.S. ambassador in the Middle East, Raymond Hare, summed up the U.S.'s minimum interests in the region as "right of transit, access to petroleum, and absence of Soviet military bases." That probably remains the bottom line today. Toward that end, the U.S. may have to step up technical, economic and (very selectively) military aid. Already the U.S. has a potential "archipelago of allies" that aid each other in opposing Moscow-supported internal subversion and provide selective arms support to nations in need. Two examples: even though it maintains, officially...
...Duck" Fleming popped one in from 18 feet, but that was the last Harvard bucket for almost eight minutes as Northeastern ran off 15 unanswered points. When Robert Taylor finally canned a 15-footer from just left of the foul line at 11:05 the score was 60-46 Northeastern, and the Crimson had been outscored...