Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford knows that as well as anybody. So right now there is a thick notebook in the White House office of Jim Cannon, director of the Domestic Council, with literally scores of domestic proposals that have poured in from Cabinet officers and agency heads for three months. They range from rebuilding country sewers to resuscitating the Penn Central railroad...
...August 1915, a Catholic priest serving as a lowly stretcher-bearer with a French infantry regiment was cited for displaying "the greatest self-sacrifice and contempt for danger" during a ruinous battle. But there is no mention of the honor in the cheap school notebook in which, during the same week, the priest began keeping a diary "to force myself to think, to observe, to be precise...
...first pages of the diary read like the usual soldier's notebook, but for much of the rest, the wretched drudgery of rescuing bodies, dead and half living, is unmentioned. In fact, Teilhard's cosmic philosophy had the disconcerting result of making the horror of war almost benign. On Sept. 21,1917, he wrote that warfare creates "a certain superhuman atmosphere where life takes on an interest out of proportion with the preoccupations of ordinary existence...
...opening session, everyone is given a notebook and ballpoint pen and told to use them freely. "Thoughts" are to be shunned in favor of writing down "feelings," which are "neither good nor bad, they just are." As the meetings progress, the participants are told, they will be asked to write answers to questions ("What is the quality in us that I like best?"). These answers will be the basis of what, in the jargon of the Encounter, is called a "conjugal dialogue." It takes place when husband and wife are alone and have traded notebooks...
Kissinger occasionally catnaps on one of two bunks in the green stateroom he is sharing on this shuttle with Wife Nancy. From time to time he consults a fat blue looseleaf notebook crammed with constantly updated bargaining positions, options and alternatives, or studies the flood of incoming "Tosec" or outgoing "Secto" cables (550 in the first week of the latest shuttle) that pass in code between his Air Force jet and Washington. Kissinger steadfastly refuses to use a telephone. "I won't talk on the phone," he barked at an aide who suggested an airborne call...