Word: vip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traffic was maddening on the Long Island side of New York City's Queensboro Bridge, with motorists darting heedlessly into a crowded intersection. The ensuing gridlock trapped a long gray sedan with VIP license plates. A frosted blond head poked out of the backseat window. "You are a stupid man!" she shouted at a driver who had cut her off. "You are a stupid man!" Then she got out of the car and rushed into the middle of the snarled intersection. Ignoring honks, raised fists and remarks far ruder than her own, she demanded that this car back...
...Walter Mondale, the frustration mounted at each stop. From a VIP lounge at the Baltimore-Washington airport, he put in a telephone call to Lane Kirkland, only to be told that he was away from his office. Mondale tried twice more, from the Columbus airport, and finally reached the AFL-CIO president. Mixing sternness with pleading, he told Kirkland to halt the flow of money that unions were funneling into Mondale's effort through supposedly independent groups called "delegate committees." Said the former Vice President: "I really have to make sure it's stopped...
...short-lived triumph. Officials pointedly denied Nkomo the use of the airport's VIP lounge and whisked him into a customs office. Inspectors then searched his luggage for more than one hour, confiscating a color television set, a videotape of the musical My Fair Lady and some English honey. Next day Nkomo appeared in Zimbabwe's neoclassical national assembly to challenge a motion that, because he had missed 21 consecutive sessions, would have stripped him of his seat. Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's government had introduced the motion two weeks earlier...
...strains of a John Philip Sousa march, Ronald Reagan jauntily mounted the podium in the Sheraton Washington hotel to say he was sorry. His audience, members of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women, had been scheduled to take a VIP tour of the White House the day before. But due to a snafu in scheduling, the East Room was already occupied (ironically enough, by a conference on government efficiency), and the group was turned away. Fully aware that his relatively low popularity among women could cost him in 1984, the President tried to defuse the situation with...
...security was extraordinary. As U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan watched a joint demonstration of South Korean and U.S. military power near Seoul a fortnight ago, they were protected by a shield of thick bulletproof glass and surrounded by heavily armed presidential bodyguards. VIP spectators at the military display had been carefully screened before being invited, and were required to pass through metal detectors set up on a slope near the target area. News cameramen were kept 328 ft. from the presidential bunker and warned not to point their cameras at the President...