Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Presidents to be courteous. Truman asked for an aide once but instructed Burns not to summon him to the phone if the fellow and his wife were having dinner. The morning that Tricia Nixon was to get married, the rain started and stopped several times, and plans for the Rose Garden ceremony teetered back and forth. Finally, Nixon called and politely asked, Operator, do you know if this wedding is going on today...
Other institutions are facing powerful inflationary pressures. Stanford's annual energy bill rose in three years from $1.6 million to $3.9 million; similar increases have hit the University of Southern California, which is one of Los Angeles' top ten electricity consumers. At Illinois' Northwestern, many buildings are left unheated on evenings and weekends in midwinter. "We'll issue sweaters," gibes Vice President Lee Ellis. Then he adds: "No. We can't afford sweaters. We'll issue a memo telling people to wear sweaters...
...Hayes manhandled a Cedar Rapids television cameraman. Three years later, after losing to Southern California, he took swipes at a Los Angeles sportswriter and a bystander. While Michigan was beating his boys in 1971, Hayes menaced an official, then broke a sideline marker over his knee. Before the 1973 Rose Bowl, he pushed a camera into the face of a newspaper photographer. "That'll take care of you, you son of a bitch," the coach was quoted as saying. In 1977 the Big Ten put him on one year's probation after he slugged an ABC cameraman...
...gushing: Upstairs, Downstairs is back, and our old friends have returned to 165 Eaton Place, which now looks more like home than home itself. Mrs. Bridges is making game pies in the kitchen; Roberts, milady's personal maid, is minding everybody's business but her own; and Rose, our own Rose, is looking noble. Upstairs, Lady Marjorie is reigning once more as empress of the morning room, stopping from time to time to arch an autocratic eyebrow at Husband Richard Bellamy. Daughter Elizabeth has caught a bad case of socialism, and Son James is dallying with Sarah...
...publisher to perform his husbandly duties upstairs while he reads his drivel to a party in the drawing room. In another, Sarah (Pauline Collins), who has quit her downstairs job, returns to disrupt the other servants with seances and other outlandish acts. It is hinted that she and Rose (Jean Marsh, co-creator of the series) had had an affair when Sarah was there before. Speaking of Rose's current roommate, Sarah says, "I'll bet she's not as warm to snuggle up to as I was." Rose a lesbian! What next at Eaton Place...