Word: rods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buying aspirin," but the speaker associates himself in no uncertain terms with the name he drops. I could never get over the way Woodward and Bernstein used to skirmish this way: Bob would tell Carl he saw Frank Perdue on the bus; Carl would tell Bob he nearly ran Rod McKuen down in front of Sans Souci, and so on. I guess it was just hard for me to understand how two people as as sensitive and wonderful as Carl and Bobby could stoop to such silliness...
...discovered Rod Carew, Minnesota Twins' scout HERB STEIN, was on hand Wednesday to watch the University of Rhode Island beat the Harvard baseball team, 4-0. Responsible for all of New York and New England for the Twins' organization. Stein made the trip to Kingston. R.I., to get a good look at a pair of prospects. Crimson hurler JIM CURTIN and URI's sophomore backstop TONY CARLUCCI. But often as not, Stein admits, a totally unknown player will end up impressing him more than those he came to see. "Often, you come up with a better name," he says...
...accepted, and Roosevelt understood that the threat was a kind of body language of power. He would bring Ickes to the White House for warmth and flattery, and thus renewed, Ickes would go back to his tasks, one of which was being Roosevelt's lightning rod. Resignation would be forgotten until next time. After Roosevelt's death, the Secretary delivered his umpteenth offer of resignation. Harry Truman did not talk the same language. He took Ickes at his word. Goodbye Ickes...
...digging after 4 p.m. Dothan was not deterred. To help locate promising sites, she hired as her foreman a Bedouin named Hamad who had been doing some freelance digging on his own. As he walked over the dunes, he would hold a long screwdriver before him like a divining rod and mutter in Arabic, "Yom assal, yom bassal [One day it is honey, one day it is onions...
...Actor Rod Steiger, 55, going from the Hasidic rabbi in The Chosen to Benito Mussolini in Lion of the Desert demanded a few changes. First, the Yiddish inflection was traded for an Italian accent. No problem there, since Steiger had played Pope John XXIII in And There Came a Man (1968) and, for that matter, the title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup...