Word: whole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some words, and placed on her lap a small box inscribed with the words Totus Tuus (Totally Yours) and the papal coat of arms. When she opened the box, she found a rosary of white beads with a gold cross. Said De Martino: "If you had given me the whole world, it wouldn't have meant so much." A Boston cop who had been standing beside the chair began to weep. "I've got to get back to church," he said, and he walked away...
...Highway 1, volunteers in blue Kennedy T shirts were also working at a bank of phones, trying to line up blocs of voters-from elderly residents of condominiums to youthful opponents of nuclear power. The volunteers are fired up with a sense of mission. Said Salesman John Adams: "The whole world is watching. We have a chance to bring big change in the country, right from this county...
...funeral, he was the center of attention. At the reception tendered by Nixon, other heads of government and Senators who usually proclaimed their antipathy to authoritarian generals crowded around him. One had the sense that if he moved to a window, the center of gravity might shift, and the whole room might tilt everybody into the garden...
...contributed no little to the crisis atmosphere, by now it had its own momentum, which, if she did not master it, might overwhelm her. Her dislike of Nixon, expressed in the icy formality of her manner, was perhaps compounded by the uneasy recognition that this man whom her whole upbringing caused her to disdain perceived international relations in a manner uncomfortably close...
...such as Shakespeare's plays or historic news events like the saturation coverage of the Pope's visit to the U.S. And there are those vintage films that seem fated to be televised at 2:30 a.m. A well-used machine can provide its owner with a whole library of spectacle and drama...