Word: ramp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barnaby says he's "very happy with the material and the potential left adds quickly," It's a slow path up the inclined ramp to success...
...given to bringing them small favors like homemade jam and freshly baked bread prepared by Burger himself. The Chief has been particularly considerate to Douglas since the old liberal retired from the court in 1975; he has called on him regularly, and personally supervised the construction of a ramp into the court for Douglas' wheelchair. (Douglas, a brilliant but acerbic man, was less kind to Burger while still on the bench. In conversations with his clerks, he referred to Burger not as "the Chief but as "this Chief...
...image on a television screen. A brusque man, a stolid face, the body of a peasant. He descended the airplane ramp and kissed the asphalt of East Boston. And through the cluttered landscape of eyes and ears and signs that viewed him, he smiled warmly and told them all to condemn abortion, to uphold marriage, to aid the weary and the poor. He looked at masses of well-to-do's, of down-vested students all packed off to Business and Law and Success School and told them to forsake "possessions" and to forsake themselves, for Christ...
...tail of the Pope's plane comes slowly into view through the mist. It taxis slowly to position but overshoots the steps. The door opens and a stewardess appears. A photographer swears, having wasted two shots on what he thought was the Pope. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros heads up the ramp, the U.S. Chief of Protocol in tow. First Lady Rosalynn Carter is conspicuous in a black skirt-and-jacket-suit with a matching hat that could only be a bowler. The Pope makes his first appearance in the U.S. during his pontiffship and the dignitaries break into respectful applause...
...understand there is a big gap. It is always a slow, upward ramp. We'll have a lot of work on technique," Barnaby cautions. But he is quick to insist that he's looking to win--soon. "I hate that phrase 'building years,'" Barnaby says, condemning two words heard often on the Harvard sports scene of late...