Word: threads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nixon picked up the thread. He went to Moscow in 1972 as an unpredictable and dangerous opponent to the Soviets, the man who had just bombed and mined Haiphong. He succeeded in opening a channel to Brezhnev and invited him to Washington. That channel soon began to close. On the day that Brezhnev headed home from the U.S., John Dean began his Watergate testimony on the Hill. Nixon's political life was rushing toward its end, and the Kremlin sensed it. Gerald Ford was no master of the details of nuclear arms control at Vladivostok that November, but again...
...tall, high-shouldered and middleaged, and who seems sober, gets up from the typewriter and paces about the room. Time passes again, this time into the end zone. Is the writer faltering? No! He finds the thread, and hurriedly types: "Next morning he finds the strange feet still there. 'How's everything, P.B.?' a dozen people ask him before lunch. To each, Sykes replies, 'Fine.' He telephones a doctor. A receptionist says the next available appointment is three months distant. Sykes says he has an emergency. 'What seems to be the trouble?' asks the woman. Sykes cannot tell...
Hughes has a big smile and good looks, but ten lines into his first speech he drops the thread of Shakespearian poetry and never picks it up again. His voice maintains the same pace and tone throughout the show, except at moments of special excitement when he raises it up high in his throat in a doomed attempt to communicate wonderment. When he is banished for killing Juliet's cousin in a duel and flees to his confessor's cell, he collapses on the floor and cries; the irritating sobs continue interminably. They seem an admission of the actor...
...really have to follow the Ear if you want to be a real "Earwig." The first Ear can be incomprehensible, but with practice readers catch her tricks. When she goes wok shopping, that means someone is getting married. You notice the artful thread running through each tidbit in a day's column as if it were all somehow related. And you begin to get an idea who Uncle Oscar is. Now you're ready to quote Ear over your own personal gossip fence. Everybody else does it, after...
...being written these days on leadership by such experts as Rutgers Emmet thread Hughes and Williams' James MacGregor Burns. A common thread that binds their thoughtful expositions is that successful leadership is a state of mind Leadership a speech; it is a hundred decisions, not a single act. Leadership is a march down a long road, not always in a straight line, but always directed to ward some distant landmark. Finally, leadership involves total belief and commitment...