Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose sense of what is appropriate now is fine-tuned. A few hours after his swearing-in, the Vice President mused to friends that gaining public attention was something that not only did not obsess him any longer, but something that should purposefully be avoided. Even when discounted, his remark had a ring of sincerity...
...effect of extending a form of incarceration that, for now, has been more confining for the jurors than the defendants. The jurors were busy Christmas shopping last week-accompanied by U.S. deputy marshals, who went along to make certain that a store clerk did not offer a stray remark about the trial. The jurors have been staying in Washington's unpretentious Midtown Motor Inn since their swearing-in Oct. 11, leading peculiarly insulated lives as temporary wards of the Government...
...device but also at the Soviet Union and the U.S. The Arab nations were notably annoyed by Moscow's supposed agreement to allow increased emigration of Soviet Jews in return for U.S. trade concessions, (see THE NATION). One Israeli diplomat professed to be encouraged by Fahmy's remark. "At least Fahmy thinks Israel will be here 50 years from now," he quipped...
...there are people like Corcoran who believe we must refocus our concern and energy on domestic affairs. In that context, the remark able Henry Kissinger becomes, oddly enough, a kind of problem. There was just a hint at Vladivostok that he was seducing Gerald Ford to walk the same primrose path of summitry that Nixon trod. ∎ That land of life is delightful with the urbane Kissinger as tour director. He brings those big fat briefing books that lay the whole plan out. It is all very coherent and tidy, a given schedule with largely predictable results that rest...
...Asian trip. One reporter described his performance as a "disaster." Nessen, for instance, was absent when word came of the Ford-Brezhnev arms agreement because he was on a tour of Vladivostok. But Nessen's kowtowing statement that "the President will return home in triumph," and his condescending remark that the journalists "were dazzled ... amazed" by the arms agreement, really roused them. Peter Lisagor, Washington bureau chief...