Word: tiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John R. Silber, president of Boston University, said yesterday that in his telegram reply to Bennis he wrote "you would get schrod if you bet with me. In defiance of the Red Tide from Cincinnati I will bet six live lobsters...
Almost all rookie agents start out in one of the field offices, where the work centers on catching counterfeiters and forgers. (Created in 1865 to stem the tide of bogus "greenbacks," the Service is still an arm of the Treasury.) Some are later selected for the Protection Division, which is responsible for the safety of the President, the Vice President and their families, ex-Presidents and theirs, the Secretary of State and presidential candidates during campaigns. A number of agents with special skills come in especially handy and often have fun to boot?skiing alongside Ford, for example...
...finally, DiMaggio was a winner: he played for the Yankees when the Yankees were a conglomerate of the best talent in the game and their consistency and durability were as steady as the tide...
President Bok has named Preston N. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change, to steward the research institute as acting director at the start of a year when, for the first time, the tide seems to have turned toward peace and quiet...
...member Constitutional Convention was scheduled to resume formal talks at Belfast's Stormont Parliament building after a summer of private discussions. To optimistic observers, it appeared that Ulster's Protestant and Roman Catholic politicians might be on the verge of some pragmatic settlement. Even the continued tide of sectarian terror, which extended to England in a wave of recent bombings (TIME, Sept. 15), did not dim the hope. The very savagery of the killings, so the reasoning went, would pressure the politicians to reach agreement...