Word: beene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter, 44, has been Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs ever since Jimmy Carter (no kin) took office and is a favorite among the always skeptical Washington press corps. "He is the best guy I have seen in his job in 20 years," declares Boston Globe Columnist William Beecher...
Insiders get good at deciding who could have said what, particularly when anonymity operates by understood code names: a "senior State Department official aboard the Secretary's plane" used to mean Henry Kissinger, and now means Cyrus Vance. A diplomat or bureaucrat can privately get across his side of...
The choice of Nevin, the Times reported, "surprised many business analysts," though none are named. "They said he resigned last month as Zenith's chairman and chief executive officer under somewhat cloudy circumstances." Meaning what? "Observers of Zenith" (these same "many" unnamed analysts, presumably) "said Mr. Nevin had probably...
What on earth does this sentence in a news story mean? Has Nevin been guilty of some other funny business that has not yet come to light, or has he simply not done well enough, or what? A flabby and unspecific accusation is anonymously made. There it lies on a...
Sad to say, Flatt muffed a chance to win the game in the final moments of the second overtime. With 36 seconds remaining and Harvard down, 79-78, guard Calvin Dixon penetrated to the middle of the lane and dumped a beautiful pass to Flatt under the basket--maybe being...