Word: clock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, as Vance put it, to protect Brzezinski against his own large insecurities. "It's not personal, it's institutional," maintained the Secretary. "It will be a terrible blow for the State Department." Mondale tried to be the peacemaker. The group stayed up until 3 o'clock in the morning with the distraught Vance refusing to budge. Strauss periodically left the room while Jordan and Mondale tried to persuade the Secretary to see it the President's way. Vance, as ever the loyal compromiser, finally went along. "He was humiliated by it," said one close friend...
Every morning at 6 a.m. loudspeakers on the ornate clock tower above Hanoi's Central Post Office crackle to life with the strains of the patriotic pop song, In Praise of Ho Chi Minh. Within the hour most of the city's 820,000 residents have mounted their bicycles to head for jobs and schools. No matter where they pedal they never get far from Uncle Ho. His exhortations to BE VIGILANT AND DEFEND THE COUNTRY AT ALL TIMES are posted throughout the city. His steely face surveys every foyer and office. It seems to personify the martial...
...time for Gimme Shelter!-"America's favorite tax-planning fun game." Today's big contestant: Susan Stamberg. She beats the clock and correctly identifies Federal Tax Form G, earning a chance at an Individual Retirement Account. Applause and organ music erupt in the radio studio. But on Round 2 she draws a blank on Form 2440, losing a chance to "become a limited partner in a solar-powered cattle ranch on a uranium field." Susan has to settle for an electric saucepan. "Until tomorrow," says a smarmy announcer as applause and music swell, "Remember: Give us shelter...
...explain to him that the Supreme Court Justices had no copying machine. Burger and other bench and bar leaders have pushed with some success for more efficient administration. "There was a day back when a judge said, "I'll start my court at 9 or 10 or 11 o'clock or whenever I want,' " Burger told TIME. "But that attitude won't work today." Still, judges are jealous of their fiefs and do not like to be told to change their ways, even by higher judges...
...hour before. With about ten meters to go, Leonid Moseyev, 27, the Soviet and European champion, shot into first place on his final two strides. His winning time of 2:13:20 was equaled by the next two finishers; hundredths of seconds separated them, but the marathon clock could only break seconds into tenths...