Word: brush
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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True enough. What the editorial did not mention was that the Times, more than any other influential paper, has been spreading these dribs and drabs across Page One with an unusually broad brush. It disclosed rather breathlessly, for instance, Brother Laurance's routine lobbying for Government approval of an airline acquisition, linking the effort to the Rockefeller family's political campaign contributions. After the basic facts of the anti-Goldberg campaign "biography" had been widely reported, the Times discovered-and front-paged-another minor link in the book's financing. Then a tax expert was found...
...prize for cheap shot of the week must go to the Washington Star-News for the lead on its story about the polit ical fallout of Congressman Wilbur Mills' gamy brush with police in Washington (see THE NATION). The article began: "Never get caught in bed with a dead woman or a live man. - Old Political Axiom." It went on to say that Mills "has not violated, so far as is known, that guiding proverb." In fact, as the paper's editors were surely aware, first reports concerned booze rather than sex. There were three women...
...solid starting point, she rebuilds almost brick by brick the Savikin family's opulent apartment in Vilno. Here is her room, gaudy with color; here is the austere chamber of Sister Vera, who thinks only of her piano; here is Zoshia, the youngest maid, skating about with a brush on each foot, polishing the parquetry...
...solution to keep it from getting infected--more than a year after the treaty was signed. Later on in the documentary, it is revealed that several children who had stepped on the mines had been forced to go around the heavily-mined perimeters of ARVN outposts, supposedly to clear brush away. In effect they were used as human mine detectors. At this one hospital alone 61 per cent of the patients in 1973 were "war-related" cases...
...indictment stunned the National Football League, which has successfully avoided any direct brush with gambling interests since Green Bay Packers Running Back Paul Hornung and Detroit Lions Tackle Alex Karras were suspended in 1963 for betting on games. The N.F.L. long ago adopted an injury-reporting procedure that was designed specifically to prevent what happened in the Pisani affair. Twice every week, each of the league's 26 teams must make public a list of injured players and their availability for the next game: "out, doubtful, questionable, possible or probable...