Word: somehow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...First Lady will leave from Brunswick, Ga., aboard an Air Force Boeing 707 appropriately dubbed "Executive First Family," which translates into the radio call sign "Executive One Foxtrot." Her first stop: Kingston, Jamaica, where U.S. diplomats hope she can somehow allay Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley's suspicions of a CIA plot to "destabilize" his regime...
...Powell cannot be said to have mastered his job yet. He is perpetually disorganized and chronically late. He promises to look up facts and somehow rarely does. He constantly writes himself notes and then loses them. He tries to return all phone calls - but then forgets. He is also capable of succumbing to the common press secretary's habit of overreacting to critics. When the New York Times's James T. Wooten wrote a story claiming Carter was retreating into isolation and browbeating his staff, Powell delivered a 20-minute broadside. Replies Wooten: "Powell...
...Yale everything seemed to be happening at once. Among the recipients of honorary degrees was a well-tanned and teary-eyed Gerald Ford, who received a standing ovation as President Kingman Brewster read his citation: "It took someone to get the house clean in time for the birthday party. Somehow, you managed to get us ready to celebrate. Like the tall ships, you were a symbol of stately and cheerful serenity." Brewster, who was leaving the university after 14 often stormy years as president, then got a surprise honorary degree himself ("You have been the disturber of placid assumptions...
...Back) in the elevator, the minutes passed, I searched frantically for an exit, and we never said a word. Did I pass out? Did the elevator eventually start of its own accord, as the Gods had determined that they had played with me enough? I only know that I somehow made it through that day, that year, and I now see her on the street and smile foolishly, and she walks past, sailing indomitably onwards in that world of hers where embarrassed boys never talk to you and elevators never break down...
...Note: These mini-pranks are described only so that students may be enlightened as to the higher and more creative uses of the Centrex system.) When my freshman roommate was lonely, he would call, on the phone, every room in our dorm, and ask for himself. It was somehow reassuring to him to hear dozens of students tell him that "No, he doesn't live here, he lives downstairs," and it was double reassuring to have those same students come up to my roommate the next day and ask him if he ever got that call from that friend...