Word: middleburg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After protecting Presidents and their families from summit conferences to swimming pools and from the blood-stained steps of Blair House to the fox hunting fields of Middleburg, U. E. (for Urbanus Edmond) Baughman wanted out. Confessed the lanky, brush-haired veteran of 33 years in the Secret Service, the last 13 as its chief: "At 56 I'm worn out." Baughman's post-retirement plans: "I'm going to do all the things I've been watching other people...
Until the virus came along, the President's month-old lumbosacral strain was, by official accounts, coming along fine. After a couple of days of rest at Middleburg, the President hopped about on his crutches with decreasing evidence of pain. Although Kennedy had twice recently reinjured his back-once by tilting too far back in his black leather swivel chair, another time by leaning too hastily over his desk to sign some letters-Dr. Travell said that her patient would soon be off his crutches. Just the same, Kennedy canceled a trip to the Governors' Conference in Hawaii...
...varsity will meet a squad from Middleburg Wednesday in what is regarded as a tune-up for Saturday's game with Yale...
...morning last week, President Kennedy's military aide, Brigadier General Chester Clifton, got an urgent telephone call. He told the caller to telephone the President at his weekend home in Middleburg, Va. Shortly afterward, in keeping with instructions he had given, the President was awakened and told that an invasion force of Cuban revolutionaries had landed as planned on the south coast of Cuba. So began John F. Kennedy's darkest and bitterest week as President...
...superficial signs of similarity were more obvious each week. Instead of presidential golf at Palm Springs and Gettysburg, there was presidential golf at Palm Beach and Middleburg. New Frontier "task forces" had taken over from Eisenhower-era "study committees," but little seemed to be happening. Dwight Eisenhower had been criticized for his wandering press conference syntax; last week's Kennedy conference was as notable for its shapeless prose as for its muted tone...