Word: porch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cuban missile crisis ended. Nikita Khrushchev's astonishing message about the weapons ("We instructed our officers to dismantle them, and to return them to the Soviet Union") lifted the clouds of crisis. John Kennedy, tired but quietly jubilant, stood in the bright October sun on the porch outside the Oval Office where he and his aides had fashioned a solution during 13 days of nail-biting cerebration. Kennedy thrust his hands deep into his coat pockets, a familiar tic that signaled he was back in high fettle. He ducked his head with the small self-conscious smile...
Morrisonville was heavily populated with Bakers, and on soft summer nights young Russell would listen quietly as they gathered on his grandmother's porch to swat flies and swap news. Someone had lost his arm in a thresher accident, some one else had a sick cow, the crops were burning up for lack of rain. A branch of the family in the funeral business was stuck with a monstrously expensive glass coffin. Fortuitously, the area's biggest illegal distiller expired. His widow, impressed with the glass box and its air-tight rubber seal, bought the thing on sight...
...could not forget the heated discussion I had observed on Sadat's porch. I remembered that earlier in the night Sadat's views on whether Israel could make decisions on Palestinian refugees coming into the West Bank had been directly misrepresented by one of his key advisers. The adviser professed to speak for Egypt, but had not even discussed the issue with his President, and I recalled that earlier that evening when I had wanted to see Sadat, his aides told me that he had retired early and could not be disturbed. In the middle of the night, about...
...remained alone in the little study where most of the negotiations had taken place. I looked out to the Catoctin Mountains and prayed fervently that somehow we could find peace. Then I changed into more formal clothes before going to see Sadat. He was on his porch with five or six of his ministers. Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown were there to tell them goodbye...
...grandchildren. Knowing the trouble we were in with the Israelis, Susan suggested that she go and get the names of the grandchildren, so that I could personalize each picture. I did this, and walked over to Begin's cabin with them. He was sitting on the front porch, very distraught and nervous because the talks had finally broken down at the last minute...