Word: utters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...California Court of Appeals Judge Mildred Lillie?nominees widely regarded as obscure and unsatisfactory. It looked like Haynsworth and Carswell all over again, some Senators predicted, with another vitriolic fight over confirmation. "As a group," Edward Kennedy had said, the six candidates Nixon was known to be considering reflected "utter contempt for the court...
...Nixon's jubilation, his choices came close to producing utter surprise. White House advisers insist that although Friday and Lillie had been the leading candidates, a back-up list included Rehnquist and Powell. An understandably Machiavellian theory immediately surfaced that Nixon had deliberately sent out his list of six while intending all along to nominate Rehnquist and Powell, their names preserved from advance criticism. In that way, according to the theory, the less than distinguished earlier possibilities would make the final choices seem, by comparison, Olympians...
...rest on a foundation of unity: the oneness of God, though He is called by many names, and the essential unity of all religions. Baha'u'llah wrote: "All the Prophets of God abide in the same tabernacle, soar in the same heaven, are seated upon the same throne, utter the same speech, and proclaim the same Faith." The animating purpose of all the original teachings as they were lived and ennunciated by the Prophets was to promote the unity, harmony, and understanding oF mankind. To this end, all the Messages contain both spiritual and social parts. According to Baha...
...anything but melancholy. A visiting poet friend later wrote: "Behind the desk, in the chair, Franz Rosenzweig was throned. The moment our eyes met his, community was established. Everything corporeal became subject to a new order, irradiated by beauty. What reigned here was not pressure and duress, but utter freedom...
TIME Correspondent Timothy Tyler last week talked with Chug Utter, a Nevada mustanger who in 20 years has "gathered" 40,000 wild horses, and in whose pen Rocky awaits his fate. Chug remembers flying over wild herds in a light plane and using a "four-ten sawed-off shotgun just to spook 'em. We also used an electric shocking machine, but we didn't harm 'em. That's all poppycock." Anyway, says Chug philosophically, "there's only one end to being a horse, whether he's a champion race horse or a plug...