Word: press
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President to the exclusion of all else, and Carter had other matters on his mind in the Far East. In Tokyo, he announced that the U.S. would take in 14,000 Vietnamese refugees a month, double the figure now, and won agreement from his fellow summiteers to press for an international conference on the boat people's plight. In Korea, from which Carter had once pledged to withdraw U.S. troops, he had to reassess a military situation that makes withdrawal difficult...
...players loosen up on the field and in the clubhouse, there is the heavy spectre of Zimmer--Zimmer pacing; Zimmer rapt from the dugout; Zimmer with grimace; Zimmer shooting suspicious, beady eyes at the press from behind his desk in the clubhouse...
Estimates for the number of occupiers ranged from a few hundred to 1000. No one knew quite what to expect. Ira L. Freilicher, a LILCO vice-president, set the tone at a 10 a.m. press conference; if they don't leave, they'll be arrested-we've got a plant to build here and we don't plan to remain occupied." But, he added, "we don't want to see people hurt and we don't intend to get physical if they...
...watched the news that night--the 20 seconds or so devoted to Shoreham by the networks--those aren't the scenes that hit the screens. The focal point of the occupation attempt was the plant's front gate, right in front of most of the press, LILCO officials and police. That's where the only violence of the day took place, when about 15 youths (apparently unconnected with SHAD) decided they would like to storm the place. So they charged the gate repeatedly, kicking and bloodying the hands of LILCO employees who tried to hold it up, and eventually knocked...
...rate, as Philpott-Grimes, the overeducated and under-muscled pugilist, puns his way to a title shot. It is unclear, and unimportant, whether Newman actually knows anything about boxing. He does know a lot about journalism, and some of his best gibes are about television and the press, including one notable satire of a team of excessively cheery newscasters. This is only to be expected from a veteran NBC correspondent who has spent a large part of his life on-camera, as one punchy character says about a TV anchorman, "standing in front of a government building and saying that...