Word: straussed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tiniest of details, right down to the seating arrangements. For First Lady Nancy Reagan's dinner companions, she chose Henry Kissinger and Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams. Flanking former President Jimmy Carter were Graham herself and Margaret Truman Daniel. Rosalynn Carter dined with former Democratic Party Boss Robert Strauss and Richard Simmons, Washington Post Co. president. Some 2,400 other place cards included notables from television (Tom Brokaw, Walter Cronkite), business (Laurance Rockefeller, Lee Iacocca) and show business (Steven Spielberg, Diana Ross). Two hours of after-dinner ceremonies went from Graham's opening remarks to a closing "My Turn...
...Levi's Plaza, Levi Strauss & Co., corporate headquarters, San Francisco, Calif. Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Inc., architects. Located on the fringe of the city, this office complex frames a pleasant garden and proves that corporate prestige does not depend on scraping...
...religious conviction necessary in a President? Certified historians and political scientists shy from such an embarrassing "value judgment." But the voters know they would not want a nonbeliever President, and their instinct is correct. It has been settled that a Catholic can be President. The droll Bob Strauss goes about asking whether the country is grownup enough for "a Texas...
...York performances (the orchestra will also perform in Pasadena, Calif.) found both Karajan and the Berlin in peak form. The opening-night An Alpine Symphony put the orchestra's fabled virtuosity at the service of Strauss's last, underrated tone poem for an exhilarating trip up the mountain top. In the four Brahms symphonies, Karajan emphasized the richness of Brahms' sonorities in expansive readings that found room for visceral thrills when the opportunities arose; the high-spirited brass peroration that concludes the Second Symphony is probably still echoing somewhere in Carnegie Hall's rafters, joining...
Former Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss said on ABC that Democrats would gain at least 22 to 24 House seats, and would "come awfully close" to overturning the Republican margin in the Senate...