Word: wrap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talks with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev were intended to wrap up the broad agreement between President Ford and the Russian leader at Vladivostok in November 1974 to limit each side to 2,400 long-range missiles and bombers. Of this number, only 1,320 could carry MIRVs-clusters of independently aimed warheads. Kissinger brought home proposed compromises on most of the unsettled issues, but they satisfied none of his critics. Said Richard Perle, a foreign policy adviser to Scoop Jackson: "He gave everything away...
...affairs for Boris Aronson, one with painting (he will soon hold his tenth one-man show), and the other with the prints and toys of Japan. To prepare for Overtures, Boris collected Japanese kites (a large black kite is used on the opening curtain). He studied the way Japanese wrap things; bamboo structures, for example, are held together by wrapping them in reeds or rattan. He also collected Japanese fans and Japanese prints of Perry's warships. In his cliffside home overlooking the Hudson River located near the town of Nyack, N.Y., Aronson's study is filled with...
...think," says Ford, "that there will be an improvement in the method by which we handle this without any cutback in the money." And, he predicts, "the Governors will wrap their arms around this idea...
...should be longer (6 ft., v. the standard 5 ft.) and wider, have a contoured back to fit the curvature of the spine, a comfortable place to sit while foot washing and shampooing, and a hand spray for rinsing. Showers should be larger, have continuous wrap-around grab-bars and different-shaped handles located away from the water source so that the soap-blinded bather can adjust water temperatures by feel...
...mammal department itself is a rectangular oasis of light and better air at the rump of the museum, which you only come upon after a confused trip through the intestinal corridors that wrap themselves around the gray floor-to-ceiling cases and racks. The mammal room is also the only place on the fifth floor that you'll find living mammals. Edie Rutzmoser works there, and in the corner there's Charles P. Lyman, curator of Mammalogy, who is talking on the phone and asking someone where he can acquire a pair of canvas duckback hunting trousers. The walls...