Word: rugged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James Henderson '80, another CUE student member, says the Council vote took CUE by surprise. He says they were led to believe the Council would support their effort to make the existing study abroad plan more flexible. But Henderson says he realizes now the Council "has pulled the rug out from under...
...theaters and a vegetable oil factory. His house in Bosques de las Lomas, he boasts, would rival any in the world. The mansion has a chamber bedecked with the heads of animals Longoria acquired on his 20 African safaris, and a "pink room" that is dominated by a huge rug of that color given to him by Morocco's royal family. Unlike many of Mexico's new rich, Longoria makes generous donations to charity. He has built a church and an elementary school in his home town, and his wife Jeanette is a member of Mixteca de Cárdenas...
Altar boys find themselves with entirely new responsibilities as the afternoon wears on. The red plush carpet, covered all night with plastic like someone's aunt's living room furniture, is uncovered, and the Hoovers are brought out for a thorough cleaning of the rug His Holiness will tred...
Aside from quarreling over who "lost" Iran and Nicaragua, many in the Carter Administration would agree with Kissinger that there are great risks in pulling the rug out from under a longtime client without a plausible, acceptable successor well positioned to take over. "It's an unhappy fact of life," observes a White House policymaker, "that destabilizing our friends is a hell of a lot easier than destabilizing our enemies, and undoing a friendly regime that we have lost patience with is a lot easier than putting it back together again." So some of the men around John...
...happiness and adventure." In two great trees are hooks that held one of the President's favorite hammocks. Then there is the stone house where "we'd always have a Christmas party with roaring fires and wreaths, and after a barbecue we'd roll up the rug and dance. Lyndon loved to come here and ride over his land. His whole cycle of life was here...