Word: poled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic presidential nomination, and when L.B.J. was offered the vice-presidency by John F. Kennedy, Thornberry was one of the first friends he called for advice. "What do you think I should say?" asked Johnson. Why Lyndon," replied Homer, "I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. Minutes later, Thornberry reconsidered, phoned Johnson back. "Lyndon, said "I was wrong. You ought to take the vice-presidency." Three years later he was at Johnson's side in Parkland Memorial Hospital when Kennedy was pronounced dead. The new President turned to Thornberry, declared gravely: "This is a time...
...guests if they want their napkins tied around their necks, 18th century style. Best of all, they can wander beside ox-drawn carts along quiet, auto-free streets, amble through dozens of fragrant, carefully tended gardens, gaze over fields of maize or grazing sheep without seeing a telephone pole or TV aerial...
...called "firing five" are, however, themselves divided. At one pole, Ackermann and Mahoney stand firm for hiring a "professional" City Manager--probably from outside of Cambridge--to run the City. At the other pole, Danehy and Vellucci loudly proclaim their intention to hire someone versed in the rough and tumble of Cambridge government for the job. Crane, with a master politician's instinct for the middle, stays silent, but is thought to strongly prefer a manager with a Cambridge background polished with professional training--someone like his old friend Curry, who was a headmaster of a local school before appointment...
UNDER THE American system a man is allowed the means--and the sanction of society--to represent his own interests by himself. This makes it even more important to see to it that the Executive does not become an independent pole of power that is then "assigned" the task of bringing about social change in the country by its own independent action. Social change in the future will only come about if all the branches of government assume responsibility for the change...
These are the arguments of desperate men. Pole position winners are seldom race winners at Indianapolis because cars are ran differently for qualifying and for racing. In qualifications, they use special fuel which burns quickly while providing tremendous power boosts for short periods of time. In the race they burn pure alcohol, which lowers speed but increases mileage...