Word: brew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Correspondents Eileen Shields and Douglas Brew helped to piece the story together with interviews of some of the incoming and outgoing members of the Carter Cabinet. Ogden spoke with Hamilton Jordan, the new White House Chief of Staff, and other top aides. The whole experience reminded him oddly of the Kremlin shake-ups he had reported from the Soviet Union. Observed Ogden: "In Moscow, when we would analyze changes in the Politburo membership, it invariably appeared that dissidents had been dropped and team players installed. That's exactly how it looked in Washington last week...
...down to pack two boxes. She lamely tried to stuff chocolates into trays that glided slowly past her on a conveyor belt, but found the job difficult. "It takes concentration, doesn't it?" she said with a frown. In a tea factory, she gamely swallowed a bitter brew rather than spit it out into a handy spittoon. "Of course I'm not going to spit it out," she joked to disappointed photographers...
...spot HCG with almost 100% accuracy. The home kits use a somewhat less sophisticated procedure. Typically, they contain a test tube with the HCG antibody, sterile water, a stand and a dropper. If the woman adds a few drops of her first morning urine to this test-tube brew, then lets it sit for about two hours, a doughnut shape or ring should form on the bottom of the glass if she is pregnant. Warner/Chilcott, producer of one popular line of the kits, claims that its product, on first test, is 97% accurate if the results are positive...
...cover of a fashion magazine. Unfortunately, she fails to do much more justice to her character, even if one takes into account the script's peculiar lack of lines for Nicole. The lines Claudy has she delivers flatly, with hardly a trace of the storm that must brew inside a woman having a passionate affair with her younger brother...
...supper in her kitchen to discuss affairs of state amid aromatic fumes of the chicken soup she loved to cook. She met Prime Ministers and Presidents at the grandest of diplomatic dinners wearing her severely cut suits and orthopedic shoes. She tolerated bodyguards with reluctance but would often brew tea for them in the morning's small hours on some of her sleepless nights...