Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fluent in Spanish, to say nothing of Norwegian and Japanese, Manning helped to organize the Peace Corps program in Latin America, did research for the CIA, helped to draft the 1962 Trade Extension Act, toiled for NATO on the problems of a multinational nuclear force and hit the banquet trail as the Yale law faculty's most zealous rustler of alumni cash. Through it all, Manning stayed as cool and witty as ever. "He never bristles or sulks," says Rostow, "and he needs no soothing...
...Tree. But there are as many vexations as blessings along the trail. Bill Miller sticks more or less faithfully to the same set speech-tempting his press coterie, who have heard it a few dozen times before, to catch up on lost sleep. In contrast, Humphrey's tongue drifts freely from the predistributed text. Having already sent their stories to meet some immutable deadline, the correspondents listen in helpless frustration to these often-quotable embroideries. (The speech text: "And what did Senator Goldwater say? He said no." The Humphrey departure: "And where was Senator Goldwater? He was under...
...campaign trail, President Johnson is all things to all people. Whether discussing education in the humanities at Brown University, the need for a reasonable international stance in Manchester, New Hampshire, or the contributions of Vermont's Republican Senators to a bi-partisan foreign policy, he seemed to touch on the point of most concern to each group. With his web of homespun philosophy, face-to-face political common sense talk, and emotion-charged pleading, he is the embodiment of the great American ethic of the boy-who-grows-up-to-be-President...
Locked Wheels. Suddenly, the thin trail of purple smoke that billows behind the tires of swift-landing jets turned to a dense cloud pierced by a long tongue of flame. Fire engines screamed to the rescue, but the flame died out harmlessly. A brake had locked the left rear wheels; friction against the runway had rasped the tires down to the rims and ignited the rubber...
Lest other biographers should overlook them, MacArthur retells with zest the high points of his youthful heroics. On his first assignment in the Philippines, he reports that he was waylaid on a narrow jungle trail by a pair of desperadoes; he dropped them both with his pistol, while a slug tore through his campaign hat. When the Marines were occupying Vera Cruz in 1913, MacArthur went on an unauthorized reconnaissance aboard a railway handcar. Shooting his way out of a series of ambushes, he arrived back in Vera Cruz with four bullet holes in his shirt, but unscathed...