Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point the camera focused on the shoes of an unidentified mailman as he told of keeping daily logs for the police on mail received by certain residents on his route. Later it zoomed in on the Adam's apple of a Pennsylvania Bell executive as he said, "Under no circumstances are wiretaps performed on the premises of the telephone company," then swallowed hard and conceded that taps were often made on outlying company property like telephone poles...
...surface, Poulin looks like a cop right out of Adam 12. He is 6 ft. tall, strapping, fresh-faced and gregarious. He owns a modest seven-room home, has a pretty wife and two healthy children. At 29, Poulin gets along equally well with the townsfolk and students from nearby Colby College. He likes to joke, likes aged bourbon, likes cold beer. Two nights a week he drives 15 miles to the University of Maine campus, where he studies psychology and English composition. He also heads a Boy Scout troop in the best Police Athletic League tradition...
...thought was faithfully repeated by Chief Delegate Chiao when he paid his first official call on Indonesia's Adam Malik, President of the General Assembly. Chiao said that his relatively small mission, unfamiliar with the world organization, might at first be less active than many members of the U.N. expected. Nonetheless, the Chinese will receive considerable press exposure this week-when Chiao becomes the first diplomat to visit ailing Secretary-General U Thant, who is hospitalized with an ulcer, then when he delivers his first speech in the General Assembly...
...doesn't understand that people in automobiles simply do not allow themselves the same human excesses as people in airports and people in hotels. The book doesn't ring true at moments of such attempted tenderness as the one where--during a weekend affair with a black schoolteacher--Adam says softly. "For the first time in my life I know, really know, what it means when they say 'Black is Beautiful.'" No, the real moments are like the one at a business conference where Hailey has the GM Board Chairman 'whimsically' saying, "Unless anyone has a better suggestion, we might...
Naturally enough in this best-engineered of all possible worlds, Hailey ends his book on a happy note. The black factory worker character has been duly dispatched (kidnapped by the Mafia), Erica has decided to give up shoplifting in order to devote full time to her husband, and Adam--realizing this means that he can have his wife and inanimate objects too--begins planning for a new baby and a new car, code-named the Farstar. (The baby, one presumed, will have to settle for Buick.) Adam and Erica kiss, in a car, in a driveway...