Word: almosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party's-almost-over sadness goes with the smell of coffee and fresh biscuits at the morning mail call these days as the first year draws to an end. When an envelope bears the old university's return address, it gets handled like a ticking bomb. Groans go up from the Greek chorus at letters beginning, "When you return in September, you will be serving on the following committees . . ." As if having a last fling, William Leuchtenburg, professor of American history at Columbia, is playing hooky from his book about Franklin Roosevelt and the Supreme Court...
...eyes are often glazed, almost as if he were in a trance. His face is puffy, possibly a sign of cortisone treatment. He grasps a pen and signs his name only with great difficulty. Still, as Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, 72, climbed the long flight of steps to the top of the Lenin mausoleum in Moscow last week, he looked healthier than he has in months. For more than two hours, he stood stolidly in a bleak drizzle, waving occasionally to the thousands of Soviet soldiers, schoolchildren and workers who marched through Red Square in the annual...
...speech, Bush took off in a chartered DC-9 for a four-day, nonstop tour of most of the New England states and Florida and Alabama-all crucial to him because of their early February and March primaries. He must make a good showing fast or he is almost sure to sink among all the contenders. At each stop Bush, lean, elegant and softspoken, handled the crowds with the easy grace of a Yankee patrician to the political manner born. His father, Prescott Bush, was a Senator from Connecticut from 1952 to 1962. George Bush went to Phillips Academy, Andover...
Most of the charges stem from Talmadge's messy 1977 divorce from Betty, who forced disclosure of the Senator's financial records. Since then, Daniel Minchew, a former Talmadge aide, has told Ethics Committee investigators that he deposited $26,000 in unreported campaign gifts and almost $13,000 in excessive Senate expense reimbursements in an account kept in the Senator's name at the Riggs National Bank in Washington...
...steam, though, Halberstam blows the pipes with hyperbolic cliche. In the space of four pages about Henry Luce, for example, Halberstam calls him "large on the landscape," "brilliant," "incredible," "legendary," "shrewd," "muscular," "powerfully influential," and describes both Luce and Life magazine as "dazzling" within six lines of each other. Almost every one of Halberstam's media moguls are "geniuses," one way or another. Almost every reporter in the book is described as "brilliant" and "fiercely independent." Halberstam's villains, like CBS programmer James Aubrey, fairly drip bile off the page...