Word: uppermost
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...list of her possible successors includes Under Secretary Luther Hodges Jr., son of Kennedy's Commerce Secretary, and Anthony Solomon, the Treasury Department's Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs. Both have the qualifications believed to be uppermost in Carter's mind: expertise in economics and the ability to work well with American businessmen, which Kreps did with grace and considerable skill...
...really sudden explosions of faith. Dead religions do not produce them." And, "Miracles are like jokes. They relieve our tension suddenly by setting us free from the chain of cause and effect." Love receives a whole chapter. "When the coin is tossed, either Love or Lust will fall uppermost. But if the metal is right, under the one will always lie the other." The attachment of marriage is "a stream that, after a certain length of time, sinks into the earth and flows underground. Something is there, but one does not know what. Only the vegetation shows that there...
...difficulty to perform. Happily, though, David Sogg is an extraordinarily gifted musician. His tone is clear and pure, his technique marvelous. Few regard the bassoon as an exceptionally agile instrument, but Sogg demonstrated that it can be precisely that. The rapid passagework and the herioc leaps between the uppermost and lowermost registers were rendered with astounding lucidity. More importantly, his fine sense for the subtle lyricism of Mozart was obvious, especially in the second movement, and throughout the piece he allowed the music to express itself with such subtlety that it did not sound stale or trite. In short...
...page report given to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance admits that the Soviets have taken full advantage of loopholes in the old treaty and operated at its uppermost limits. Nonetheless, the report concludes that Moscow has not committed any clear-cut violations of SALT...
...problems that were worrying Jimmy Carter last week are by no means uppermost in the minds of most Americans In state after state, members of Congress who returned home for the August recess found voters preoccupied by personal, local concerns rather than headline-grabbing, life-and-death issues. Occasional gusts of passion were stirred over the Panama Canal treaty and the economy, but voters mentioned the President only rarely and Bert Lance hardly at all. TIME correspondents joined five members of Congress on their recess rounds. Their reports...