Word: talked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Lowrance glooms over gold's fickle ways, he is suddenly surrounded by gold-jacketed runners and other traders clad in bright red, green and purple coats. They talk excitedly about a broker's blunder: the man has made a mistake in filling out a customer's order, and it will cost him $2,500. A runner asks: "Does that mean we won't be going out to dinner tonight?" "No," answers a trader. "It just means we'll be going to McDonald...
...trademarks of an insurgent campaign: packed auditoriums at colleges and universities and sober talk about difficult issues. Calling for "a new order," California Governor Jerry Brown last week set forth on his most serious pre-campaign trip to date. For eleven days, through Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, he zeroed in on college campuses and local television stations. Brown was clearly out for grass-roots support. "I don't expect to have the endorsement of Governors, Senators and mayors," he admitted...
...going to talk peace," says Agricultural Historian Wayne Rasmussen, "a sufficient supply of food is one of the best assurances...
...university then proposed splitting the library into two parts-a Harvard research collection and a museum and tourist center elsewhere. Meanwhile, UMass offered the scenic harbor site. One drawback: it had once been used as a garbage dump. There was talk as well of more rural settings. But Widow Jacqueline argued that Jack was a man of the city, not the country, and that the library should be near the sea, which he loved. Finally, Ted Kennedy announced to a meeting of the library's board: "If Jackie wants her husband's presidential library in Dorchester, it will...
...interview subject as he would a safe, spinning from cajolery to intimidation to sympathy, hoping to hit upon the right combination. In May 1977, David Frost unlocked Richard Nixon as no inquisitor ever had, eliciting candid admissions, remorse, even a glint of tears. Dismissed beforehand as a frothy talk-show host, Frost won journalistic plaudits for his painstaking preparation and expert technique. In short, he was an obvious network choice to interview Henry Kissinger on the occasion of the publication of the first volume of his memoirs...