Word: sheaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flopping down on a green sofa, Kennedy sorted out a clutch of papers-a memo from the Brookings Institution on transition of Government responsibility, details on job requirements supplied by Aide Clark Clifford, who had been working with Brookings for many weeks. "Well," said Jack Kennedy, riffling through the sheaf, "what do we have to do?" He glanced up at Ted Sorensen, his No. 1 assistant. "Ted,'' said Kennedy, "I want you to be my special counsel." He named his dogged, cigar-chomping campaign press aide, Pierre Salinger, as press secretary; Clifford as special liaison...
...final minutes before the TV debate began, Kennedy looked tired and nervous. With two minutes to go, he took out a sheaf of notes and began going over them with a gold-and-black ballpoint pen. Across the U.S., Dick Nixon glanced at the monitor set, saw Kennedy with the notes, and glared angrily...
...oldtime physician, estimate that she is 7½ months pregnant. She She wears the voluminous maternity dress of that day, but pregnant ladies then rarely so displayed themselves. She also carries, appropriately, a sheaf of wheat and I had thought also a shuttle of wool...
...Governor of New York, unruffled and businesslike, was back in his office at Albany working over a sheaf of proposals for overhauling and modernizing the state government, and getting ready to meet his legislature this week. But in the wake of his sudden "I-shall-not-be-a-candidate" announcement (TIME, Jan. 4), evidence was mounting that his campaign reconnaissance had identified him as a special kind of Republican who would continue to have a durable influence in the campaign...