Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even with 200 agents working on the case in Los Angeles, had to admit once again that it had no idea where Patty Hearst was. Guards along both the Mexican and Canadian borders were on the alert for the trio. The key problem was that the authorities did not know what happened after Patty and the Harrises abandoned Frank Sutler's car near Griffith Park on the day of the shootings. "We're looking like hell," said William Sullivan, FBI chief in the city, "but we don't know how they departed the area." The last reliable...
...desiring those delectable divinities--Milky Way, Three Musketeers, Snickers, Buns, Reese Peanut Butter Cups--anything coated in chocolate (excepting the coconut kind, of course)--was on my list. How I relished being given a nickel to take to the grocery. Certainly the choice was agonizing, and I'll admit, I occasionally chose some bubble gum and suckers over the candy bar, but that was only to save the savoring of the chocolate bar, to intensify my craving, to make myself remember that the chocolate was superior...
...well remember going with my aunt and her collie, Tippy, to the grocery. Aunt Margaret would always buy Tippy a Clark Bar (they were his favorite). I didn't get anything. She told me I'd become a diabetic. I must admit that on a couple of spiteful occasions I ripped off one of my uncle's candy bars. He was a diabetic. He didn't care, though. In fact, he sneaked them to me. (Sneaked candy bars have more chocolate coating...
Eager to talk about his presidency, Richard Nixon last week took the unusual step of inviting Columnist James J. Kilpatrick of the Washington Star-News Syndicate to drop by the Oval Office. A Virginia conservative with a waspish wit, Kilpatrick has supported Nixon for years, although he did admit to feeling "shame, embarrassment, disgust, chagrin" after reading the full text of the White House tapes. The interview turned into a rambling, often self-serving monologue that lasted 80 minutes. The President's main points...
...there is speculation that his present condition may be worse than his intimates are willing to admit. The news of the stroke was kept secret for a full week, and only a small circle of family and close friends were allowed...