Word: bostonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jaworski and Cox could hardly be more different in personal styles. A proper Bostonian, Cox, 61, is reserved, with flashes of arrogance; Jaworski, 68, is an expansive Texan, much warmer and more approachable. Jaworski soon showed that he is as devoted to hard work as Cox, plunging into long meetings with lawyers and investigators, obviously anxious to dispel any suspicions that he had taken the job to call off the hounds. "Press on," Jaworski said repeatedly. "Make your own judgments...
...lawyers had been to keep their client from going to jail. Held in the huge, red-carpeted room just outside Richardson's office, the bargaining sessions were long and heated, the men often shouting at each other as they maneuvered for a settlement. Even Richardson, a very proper Bostonian who normally keeps himself under control, raised his voice several times and twice banged his fist down on the table...
...Gourmets should stick to gourmetism. And when my sister Bostonian, Julia Child, writes that McDonald's fare is "nothing but calories," she is wrong...
JOHN D. TUNLOP is formidable in his role of every Bostonian whose last name begins with A. As Arnold, he concocts the ultimate bureaucratic vision--income stratification according to the first letter of each person's surname. "There's got to be inequality," Tunlop muses, putting down his Adam Smith. "The best we can do is to make poverty as arbitrary as possible...
...officials in Richard Nixon's Washington are held in higher esteem as masters of governmental management than is Elliot Lee Richardson, 52, the next Secretary of Defense-even though almost no one can adequately explain just why. The public Richardson is stuffily Bostonian, serenely confident, vaguely remote. His set speeches are bloodless and dull. His ad-lib language is so convoluted, yet grammatically correct, that one questioner at a Senate committee hearing jokingly confessed that he could not quite tell from a Richardson answer whether he was for, or against, drug abuse. Moreover, Richardson has been appointed...