Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...closely followed the election of President Nixon, Theodore H. White. Reacting at least partially to unfavorable reviews of his book, The Making of a President, 1968, White attacked the "increasing concentration of the cultural pattern of the U.S. in fewer hands. You can take a compass with a one-mile radius and put it down at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 51st Street in Manhattan and you have control of 95% of the entire opinion-and influence-making in the U.S." On William F. Buckley's TV program, Firing Line, White suggested breaking up the networks...
WASHINGTON is basically an imperial seat plus slums plus liquor stores. The celebrated Mall stretches about a mile from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial on the shores of the Potomac. On either side of it loom numberless federal buildings. Except for the Pentagon, it's all right there. Most of the buildings are the familiar second-rate parodies of the Panthcon and, as Greenough pointed out over a hundred years ago, there is nothing sillier than America trying to be Corinthian. Perhaps every President for the last hundred years, tired and frustrated at the end of his term, wanted...
After a wait of an hour, I had walked out of three circus tents in Arlington National Cemetery with Tinsley's name written on a piece of white cardboard which was strung around my neck. The two of us were taking a four-and-a-half-mile walk through Washington in the cold, the rain, and the dark...
...start was encouraging for Harvard as Colburn, Roy Shaw, and John Heyburn moved out among the leaders. Heyburn was the first of the three to drop back when his calves tightened. And at the two-mile point. Shaw dropped out of the race with a sprained left ankle...
...break came in the back loops, where it usually does, and we lost Shaw," coach Bill McCurdy explained afterwards. As the pack came by at the two-and-a-half-mile point a few moments later, Villanova was well grouped up front, while Colburn, running second, was Harvard's only high...