Word: wandering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nehru's pace is far from what it used to be. On doctors' orders, government business occupies him for four hours a day at most. Visitors are limited to 20 minutes, and friends report that after a few moments his attention seems to wander. To prevent Nehru's blood pressure from rising, physicians have prescribed a heavy dose of tranquilizers, which makes him sleepy...
...runs about 1,000 daily, less than half that of the U.S. State Department. The Quai's files are singularly bare of statistics. There are not even any biographical files on foreign dignitaries. "If we want to find out about a fellow," says a Quai officer, "we just wander down the hall looking for someone who knows...
...prayer to help him bear the grave burdens of that high and difficult office. One feels, of course, a glow of quiet pride in the knowledge of our Chief Executive's devoutness. How onerous it would be to be denied the continuation of this White House tradition. Our thoughts wander back to that historic night in 1898, when William McKinley knelt in his office in reverent communion with the Lord, before coming to the Mutual Decision to launch his courageous Spanish-American War. Johnson's proposal of a Monument is no more nor less than the fitting and logical culmination...
...sure which is worse-to look like a blonde and feel like a journalist, or look like a lady and feel like a blonde") or her own kin: "My aunt's problem was remembering to remove a moustache she could no longer see, and trying not to wander around the house with her mouth open." As for the sluts of England-they may still feel miserable and optimistic, but they know they are no longer misunderstood...
...Arabs warmed up for full-scale war. Shots rang in the narrow streets of Jerusalem; machine guns chattered beyond the Judean hills. It was not time for an unarmed rabbi to go exploring in Arab country, but Glueck was never questioned about his religion. "That a Jew should wander by himself in Trans-Jordan," he says, "was so unheard...