Word: soundness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glass table where he often holds his weekly national security luncheons. It was hot and sticky, about 95°, but Carter kept his blue jacket buttoned, his red tie high on his collar. Only a few feet away his daughter Amy was taking her first diving lesson, and the sound of the slamming board passed through the hedge that enclosed the patio...
...Secretary of Defense's restatement of the U.S. military posture before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Brown seemed determined to convince his audience-both in the U.S. and in Moscow-that the U.S. was still superior to the Soviets militarily, without appearing to sound bellicose and threatening. "There is no doubt in my mind," he said, "that the U.S. is the most powerful country in the world." He admitted "concern" about "vulnerabilities" in NATO, but said he felt the U.S. could "outthink, out-design and outperform the Soviets with the resources we have and the steady increases...
...ears. Italy won when the elusive Roberto Bettega slipped away from the defense and scored the game's only goal. It did not matter. The joyous uproar continued, out of the ballpark and into the night. For hours, the capital city's Avenida Corrientes reverberated with sound. Rhythmic horn honking blared from miles of jammed-up and flatulating cars and trucks, inside of and on top of which roosted thousands of happy Argentines, waving their white-and-blue flags and shouting. From apartment houses on the side streets others surged to join the mob; hands reached down from...
...benevolent view: "Beatty is psychotic about the possibility of overlooking anything. If he could, he would be up in the projection booth of the theater showing his movie, pushing the projectionist aside, still trying to cut or add frames, humming music he might have forgotten to include in the sound track. 'Easygoing' is not a quality he has. You know how Presidents age in office? If Beatty were President, either he would be dead after the first year or the country would be dead, because his attention to detail is maniacal...
What I find most authentic today in the notes I typed after that lunch was the spontaneous sound of the Republican voice 25 years ago. Ike could have had the 1952 nomination, I now know, on the ticket of either party. But I find my notes picking up his theme-a theme which then sounded fresh to me, but now, on the larynxes of Republican orators, sounds as old-fashioned as a lament from the Prophets. Ike was closing the lunch with his credo...