Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...luck. On every flight, he caught himself worrying that the law of averages might hunt him down. He knew it was time to turn in his wings, for he could no longer repeat an old airline pilot's creed: "One thing I'm sure about. If my tail gets there, so will the passengers...
...after he had explained to his family about the new job in Washington, Lawyer Minow overheard eight-year-old Daughter Nell conclude her bedside prayers with ". . . and God bless Mommy and Mr. Chairman." Adds Mr. Chairman: "I can only say amen. I've got a tiger by the tail, and I haven't got any illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after a spell as clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred...
...Canada's growing spirit of economic nationalism, the Diefenbaker government's solution is to clip the U.S. eagle's tail feathers and declare economic independence. To the embarrassment-and distress-of the U.S., Canadian businessmen scrambled after trade with the Communist regime in Cuba, stayed strictly neutral in the politics and the battle. And then there is the Canadian government's year-end emergency budget, which promised a boost for Canadian business at the expense of U.S. capital investors. To Canadian enterprises went $60 million worth of tax concessions designed to prime Canadian investment at home...
...kind with great determination and with considerable success. It has extended its ideological expansion steadily and now has bridgeheads to the Americas and Africa. The U.S.S.R. and China are not in complete agreement but may settle their argument as to who is the dog and who is the tail. And during this time the Western democracies have tried in no effective way to establish an effective nucleus of a world government of their own in spite of their great common interests, their generally common religions, common literature, and very great similarities of government. Does any serious, thoughtful person think that...
...argues, it is not enough to think about problems and challenges as they arise. "We are going to have to aim at the future," he says, "if we expect to come on target in the present. Otherwise, our problems fly by and we just knock off a few tail feathers...