Word: seene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actually made a few errors," Desaulniers said yesterday, "but I got away with them. He seemed to make a lot more errors than I've seen him make lately...
...file into Memorial Hall every year to take exams, a brief, silent spark of recognition inevitably interrupts their last pre-exam moments. This recognition leaves them a little more secure, a little more puzzled, and quite a bit more amused than they had been an instant before. They have seen the familiar face. They have heard the soothing patter. Once again they are face-to-face with a Harvard institution--the inscrutable, ubiquitous Mr. Test...
...often Hubert Humphrey was seen only as the ebullient eternal optimist, a Don Quixote verbally tilting at windmills and dreaming the impossible dream. But his idealism lifted us to share in that dream and, in so doing, his idealism conquered our skepticism...
Precisely how much power Turner will wield remains to be seen. The legislation establishing the CIA in 1947 gave the director, as his title suggests, a certain degree of authority over all the intelligence agencies; he was charged with "coordinating" their activities. But he only loosely performed that function. The new executive order considerably enhances the director's authority and responsibility. He has control of the total intelligence budget (an estimated $7 billion a year) and the right to give assignments to all the agencies. Turner's position ultimately depends on the power realities of Washington and his own abilities...
Jean Rhys, octogenarian British novelist (Good Morning, Midnight), on living in France: "Paris sort of lifted you up. It did, it did, it did! You know, the light is quite pink, instead of being yellow or blue. I've never seen anything like it anywhere else...