Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dwayne Hoover, insane with the ideas from one of my books. You can imagine my horror; I had never even driven a Pontiac before, and besides, my books had always influenced people to do only one thing: cut out the dirty pictures my publishers put in them and then burn the rest...
...tawdry spectacle of the State Department throwing open its secret files to a shadowy unknown from the White House, of the CIA plunging into an illegal assault on this country's own citizens, of young officials being ordered to tell lies, of the operating head of the FBI burning evidence. "Can you imagine what J. Edgar Hoover would have done with those files if Ehrlichman and Dean had even hinted that he burn them?", chortled a White House survivor...
Even though his own agents at the time were searching for Hunt to quiz him about Watergate, Gray obediently took these files home, put them in a closet over the weekend, then carried them to his office and discarded them in a "burn bag" to be destroyed. Although some other FBI officials do not believe him, Gray claimed he did not even look at the papers to see what he was burning. Gray contends that he learned their contents only last month from Henry Petersen, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division. According to Gray, Dean told...
...less than five miles-e.g., simply driving to the corner drugstore to buy a pack of cigarettes. Even on longer commutes to work, the average six-seat car contains only 1.4 people. To the dismay of Detroit, some conservationists propose a tax either on bigger engines (which burn more gasoline than smaller ones) or on poor gas-mileage performance: cars getting more than 20 miles per gallon would escape the tax altogether. Beyond that, all energy savers favor mass transit where possible -plus higher commutation charges at tollgates and parking lots to encourage car pools...
Which will probably really burn Carl Ullrich, the heavy crew coach at Navy who has directed that the Naval Academy boats and oars all be American-made in the interests of an All-American program. Ullrich likes to beat no school the way he likes to beat Harvard--the trouble is he rarely gets...