Word: spadework
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...patient advance spadework in Asian capitals, U.S. diplomats managed to resolve the differences and preclude embarrassments. In Saigon, for example, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge urged Premier Nguyen Cao Ky to beware of impetuous remarks that might wreck the conference-such as repeating his proposal to invade North Viet Nam. "Lodge told Ky that ad libs were fine-so long as you'd worked on them day and night for six months before tossing them out," said one American...
...kinds of journalism-an unusual state of affairs in any TV news department. News Director John Corporon, 37, who served as U.P.I, bureau chief in New Orleans, has a wire-service fascination with fastbreaking stories plus a balancing lack of hesitance about releasing staffers for months on stories requiring spadework and research...
...spadework would be performed by perhaps 30 "working parties" of experts exploring problems state-by-state. Then, with the power of the states behind its specific recommendations, the group would have a good chance of getting congressional funds to meet the itemized demands. With such a plan, says Conant, the U.S. could devise a nationwide educational policy "adequate to meet the challenges of the new and awesome age in which we live...
...Borrowing a line from the Big Boss's routine a few years ago, a high Soviet sports official announced: "We will bury you." He was only half kidding. Since 1958, the two countries have been doing annual spadework on each other in what has come to be the world's most intensely fought dual track meet. Last year, in Moscow, the Russians almost completed the burial by walloping the combined U.S. men's and women's teams, 189 to 147. Last week the Russians were on U.S. ground and ready for the last shovelful...
AppalIing Abuses. His spadework was painstaking and effective. A native of Chicago, Jedlicka still remembers his father's making mortgage payments at the neighborhood S. & L., which had an office in a grocery. Jedlicka has what his boss, Daily News Executive Editor Larry Fanning, calls "a good sense of moral indignation...