Word: webs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lillian calls "Jimmy-things," the main pastime still seems to be memory-as it is in all villages, Southern or otherwise, where people lead lives of work and family. Stop most anyone you see-they're generally stoppable-and he or she will soon be spinning you a web of recollection to entertain you both. They tend to start with Carters, since that's why you're here; but soon they'll show you a crowd of human reasons for stopping at this wide spot in the road and listening well, even if Jimmy had been...
CHESTER & LESTER (RCA). A pair of good ole boys click in a cheerful studio jam as Les Paul's familiar slipping, sliding notes trace a delicate web around Chet Atkin's crisp licks...
...proved him a master of belles-lettres. This collection makes him a master of crank letters as well. Many of them may seem too personal to amuse any but White's immediate family. But the author's journalism and classic children's books-Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little-have expanded that family by millions. Moreover, readers of the Letters of E.B. White may be purchasing a textbook at no extra price. In a brief note to the mother of a young writer, White counsels: "Tell Johnny to read Santayana for a little while, it will...
...outsider could say with certainty even whether he was alive, much less how he looked or behaved. He was one of the world's richest, most imperious, capricious, outrageous, eccentric and powerful men. From his hideaways atop a series of luxury hotels on three continents he spun a web that ensnared an entire state, reached into the highest levels of the U.S. Government and became entwined with the tentacles of the Central Intelligence Agency. Yet for all his power, he lived a sunless, joyless, half-lunatic life in those same hideaways, a virtual prisoner walled in by his own crippling...
...mentor Henry Kissinger-is the prevention of nuclear war. This means giving the highest priority to U.S. relations with the Soviet Union. Although Ford purged the word detente from his political vocabulary earlier this year, it remains his desire to relax tensions with Moscow and engage it in a web of technological, cultural and economic interrelations that presumably would make it too costly for the Soviets to return to cold war confrontation. Ford is also pressing for a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) based on the agreement he reached with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at their November...