Hillary Rodham worked for about eight months on the impeachment-inquiry staff of the House Judiciary Committee investigating President Richard Nixon — an extraordinary assignment for a young lawyer — before the move to Arkansas.
This led to assignments directing an extraordinary 152 live television dramas between 1954 and 1960 -- an average of one every two weeks -- for "Playhouse 90" and other anthology series.
I felt he did an extraordinary job with a delicate assignment.
"'I felt he did an extraordinary job with a delicate assignment," Mr. Bush said.
I had no plans to start a business when we first met but by the time Anita and I went on another assignment together – an extraordinary trip to Romania where we were throwing soap out of the back of Body Shop lorries to villages that had not had soap for 10 years – Green & Black's had already launched and Anita was intrigued.
"It was just an everyday act of an everyday assignment, which is quite extraordinary when you look back".
In my first three years at Princeton High School, in the late nineteen-forties, my English teacher was Olive McKee, whose self-chosen ratio of writing assignments to reading assignments seems extraordinary in retrospect and certainly differed from the syllabus of the guy who taught us in senior year.
After all, the assignment is not to write down ten extraordinary things about you, or ten things that no one else in the world has ever done -- just ten nice things that, again, you can look at and say, "Yep.
The biggest challenge of this assignment was to tell the story of this extraordinary journey of the salmon, and also live to tell about it.
At the time, he described it as "not a job or an assignment," but "a seat at a campfire, surrounded by an extraordinary group of storytellers, filmmakers, artists and craftspeople".
