Word: senior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miniature flagpoles, both of precisely equal size, would be placed on the table, but North Korea has put a spike point atop its tiny table pole to gain a minute one-inch height advantage. Language across the table, which is predictably tough, reached a peak last year when the senior member on the U.N. side, U.S. Major General Richard Ciccolella, violated past practice and started addressing his opposite number directly with such salty salutations as "Pak, you bastard ..." Once, when Ciccolella stared out a window while the North Korean side was trying to make a point from a chart, North...
TALL, patrician, impeccably tailored in grey suits, elegantly aloof, Maurice Couve de Murville is the epitome of the ideal senior civil servant. In his search for an efficient and obedient administrator to carry out his reforms, General de Gaulle instinctively turned to Couve, reflecting his own reordering of France's priorities. For the past ten years, Couve de Murville has carried out De Gaulle's most cherished policies -those of making France seem great in the world again. Now that De Gaulle intends to direct his attention to healing France's internal ills, he has elevated...
...making the most of it prettily dressed in a grey brocade Georgian coat, lace jabot, tricorn hat and wig. To the strains of Strauss, she and three chums put their mounts through the paces, and when the day's events were over, young Anne had won the Senior Individual and Training Cup, a nice surprise to take home to her horse-loving parents...
Outside over a Coke in the plastic cups Sylvia told Murray how the dress was brand new because she bought it for her senior prom but no one had invited her. Murray thought that was nice; he really liked new dresses...
...just may. Fosbury, 21, a senior at Oregon State University, has been racking up victory after victory this year with the most preposterous high-jumping technique ever devised. Approaching the bar, he plants his right foot, spins a full 180°, and launches himself backwards into the air. Experts are at a loss to explain why the "Fosbury Flop" works. "I wouldn't advise anybody else to try it," says Oregon State Coach Berny Wagner. But it sure does the trick for Dick. Last month Fosbury cleared 7 ft. 2 1/4 in. to win the N.C.A.A. championship, and last...