Word: marvelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...oath of office on Nov. 22, 1963, and Johnson was a different man. Thoroughly schooled in the traditions of government, sobered by the climactic events of that day, Johnson managed the transition of office with such swiftness, determination and efficiency as to make the nation and the whole world marvel at the orderliness of the U.S. political system in crisis...
...state-of-the-nation address before surrendering his sash of office to Gustavo Díaz Ordaz in December. López Mateos trotted through the impressive record. It took almost three hours, and most of the speech dealt with Mexico's booming prosperity which has become the marvel of other envious Latin American governments...
...quietly as a Quaker meeting. For two weeks it has been clear to all but bitter-enders and Cincinnatians that Gene Mauch's amazing Philadelphia Phillies-the laughingstock of the league just three years ago-are too far ahead to be caught. But there are other mysteries to marvel at: the careless collapse of the San Francisco Giants, the frantic frustration of the World Champion Los Angeles Dodgers, the night the Japanese finally broke into the U.S. big leagues. If that is not enough, there is always the curious sale of the Yankees to CBS and the wondrous hitting...
...these newsmen, Rockefeller's organization seemed a marvel of efficiency. Nothing was left to chance. At every stop on Rocky's itinerary, accommodations for the press were waiting: typewriters, pencils, paper, telegraph facilities, telephones, press releases. Transportation was there when it was needed. So were the hotel rooms. And so was Rockefeller himself, nearly always available to any reporter who wanted to talk to him. Wherever Rocky went, his smooth public relations firm of Spencer-Roberts saw to it that the crowds were there to greet him; in San Jose, for example, Spencer-Roberts rounded up more than...
...bullet. Visitors are drawn past the Pietà on three tiers of conveyor belts. They have from 60 to 90 seconds to feast on its beauty, unless they take to a fourth, motionless tier 24 feet from the sculpture. Even then, they may not have time to marvel how the Renaissance sculptor made the crucified Christ so anatomically human and so tranquil in following his agonizing death...