Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hallie Wiggins, who runs the office for her husband's sewer and water facilities construction business in Portland, Ore., works with the Y.W.C.A. and the women's prison council, which won a battle for separate women's prison facilities in the state. And Charles Wolf of Mount Wolf, Pa., a partner in a firm manufacturing corrugated paper, heads the board of York College, helps with the United Way and the York Symphony Orchestra...
Continuing the more independent and assertive diplomatic line laid down by his predecessor, Schmidt has not hesitated to mount the continental political stage. Intelligent, forceful, and pragmatic, Schmidt has already become the leading European statesman. Despite international mutterings of "Iron Chancellor" and the "Germany of old," Schmidt has not hesitated to use German economic muscle to safeguard German interests. He has warned the European Economic Community that Germany would no longer provide open ended funds to subsidize poorly conceived Community projects or stagnant, obsolete economic sectors of other countries. "Germany," according to Schmidt, "will no longer be the 'milch...
...confusion, and Ford's momentum has been stalled. More importantly perhaps, the president has been pressured into a clumsy vice presidential selection process, a pale imitation of Carter's smooth, professional operation of a month ago. Reagan emerges from the affair as the confident man of action who could mount an aggressive campaign against the Democrats--no small consideration when you're 35 points behind in the polls. The columnists who have been declaring Reagan dead since New Hampshire may be in for a surprise next week in Kansas City...
There is of course no single correct way to mount Shakespeare's plays, but the solutions should lie within certain limits. The Forest of Arden here can no more do without verdure and warm sunlight than the Athenian woods in Midsummer Night's Dream can do without foliage and magic moonlight. Peter Brook's recent staging of the latter in a glaring white squash court provided an unrelievedly offensive evening. This As You Like It is far from being such a total disaster, but the approach adopted does constitute a barrier rather than a bridge...
...year exile, spent mostly in Europe. Then 23 years old, the duke filled two notebooks as he explored the exotic New World, writing of "very pretty" and "coquettish" Cherokee women, "gross, lazy and inhospitable" whites in Tennessee, and George Washington's "most exquisite politeness" during a dinner at Mount Vernon. The journal has just been published in France as a gesture toward the U.S. Bicentennial...