Word: samplers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five White House years by squirreling away appointment sheets, memoranda, letters and, above all, by talking almost every day's events into a tape recorder. The result was some 1,750,000 words that will eventually be available to scholars at the L.B.J. library. Diary is a sampler, some 300,000 words in nearly 800 pages, constituting a singular account of an exacting and freakish assignment, that of being a First Lady in the second half of the 20th century...
...been uncommonly troubled by the recent recession, which some experts prefer to call a "recedence" or "retardation," and by new attacks on industry's social conscience. One consequence is that the linguistic fog has begun to thicken in annual reports, executives' speeches and other official statements. A sampler...
...tourists who crossed the Pedernales on a recent Sunday afternoon at the rate of one carload a minute, these are subjects in keeping with what they came to see-the severe rustic furniture, the tin drinking cups of a Texas boyhood, the hand-sewn sampler on L.B.J.'s nursery wall that says...
...science report. Most expressed cautious hope that the country's schools will take a hard look at the results and sharpen their teaching accordingly. But one commentator, Curriculum Consultant Dr. Richard J. Merrill of California, livened his remarks with a list of "Pleasant and Unpleasant Surprises." A sampler of the Unpleasant: "Only 38% of nines and 49% of adults could time ten swings of a pendulum. Only 41% of 17s and 45% of adults knew the function of the placenta. Only 18% of 17s knew that nuclei are more dense than the rest of the atom; 93% thought that...
Despite widespread building, good-quality hotel space is scarce and in some cities virtually unobtainable without early reservations. A summer sampler of tourist centers abroad