Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allowing the President to appoint a Chief Justice for life should be scrapped. If the President appointed the Justices, but allowed them to select their own Chief to preside over the court prior to the opening of each new session, it would at least allow the Justices to work under leadership that the majority considered competent...
...hostages were frequently questioned about their work and accused of plotting against the new Iranian regime. Said Lillian Johnson, 32, a secretary in the embassy's security office: "There was lots of interrogation, believe me, at weird hours of the night until they were convinced [that the hostages were telling the truth]." The Americans also had to listen to anti-U.S. and anti-Carter harangues by their captors. For some of the men there were additional hardships. They were handcuffed rather than bound with cloth...
...dilemma like Iran. It is almost pure decision making from dawn to dawn. There are meetings constantly, but there is always something oddly uncollegial about them. When power is employed, the resolve and foresight of the President are the main ingredients. Without those the apparatus does not work...
Sister Anne Marie set to work. Telling all who would listen that "I am certain the good Lord and good friends will hear me," she began rounding up used instruments. She organized the most promising students from her Holy Trinity Missionary School into a group and persuaded a local customs inspector to serve as conductor...
...word of the nun's project spread, small donations began flowing in from around the world. By 1971 the orchestra had become known as the Holy Trinity Philharmonic. The nun even persuaded members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to visit Haiti to work with the Philharmonic. In 1976 she managed to raise $60,000 to send the 60-member orchestra to Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony in the Massachusetts Berkshires...