Word: lot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think it's a workable solution. I believe that once you get Rhodesians working together, black and white, you're going to get a lot more sense out of [the blacks] than you're getting out of them now. They're just sparring for position here, playing to the gallery. Once the decision has been made, and we go back to Rhodesia, I believe these people will take their eyes off the gallery and start working in Rhodesia for Rhodesia. There is a distinct possibility that this is going to work, and work well...
Complaining bitterly about Britain's colonial record in Rhodesia, the delegate, Mukudzei Mudzi, exploded: "You just think we are a lot of damned niggers!" Barked back Richard: "You ought to know that word is not in my vocabulary, and you should not seek to put it there. Before we go any further with this meeting, I want you to withdraw that remark." Mudzi backed off, and there were no hard feelings, especially after Richard learned that Mudzi had just been released from prison in Zambia, where he had been held since March 1975 without trial on suspicion of murdering...
...harvested in 19 years as opposed to more than 50 years for American pine. Says one of Jari's American managers: "Mr. Ludwig doesn't want to waste time with research. He just wants to begin. Naturally we make mistakes, but we also get things done a lot faster...
...have learned to their exasperation, it is often hard to find an open bank or post office there, much less close a business deal. That is because the Italians celebrate 17 official civil and religious holidays a year, more than any other Western European nation, and then take a lot of unofficial days off as well. Italy virtually ground to a halt, for instance, during the work week starting Nov. 1. First came All Saints' Day, then All Souls' Day, when employers allow workers to visit cemeteries, and finally on Nov. 4 the anniversary of Italy...
...turned-off mood. Looking back on many of the '"issues" that dominated the headlines-ethnic purity, the Playboy interview, Clarence Kelley's valances, the Eastern Europe gaffe, Ford's finances-it's hard to escape the feeling that the press coverage has a lot to answer for. In the pack mentality of campaign journalism, once some characteristic in a candidate is spotlighted-Carter's "fuzziness," Ford's fumbling-it is endlessly insisted on. In Playboy, Carter noted that local newsmen often asked him good questions on the issues, "but the traveling press have zero...