Word: chummed
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...people in bondage. It is no accident, it seems to me, that words like rights and liberty play prominent parts in those Mobil Oil ads in the Times, no accident that the defense complex is very solicitous of "individual freedoms," no accident that Ronald Reagan, in private an unparalleled chum of every special interest, is in public a protector of the common man against, "pervasive government power." Huntington, discussing political reforms introduced by the progressives, quotes historian Ted Lowi: "The perpetual bane of the reformer's existence is the ease with which the party leaders adapt new structures...
...Dewey Spangler, a top-flight newspaper columnist a la Alsop who wields more power than any single senator, a boyhood chum of Corde's who turns up on swing through Eastern Europe. As a kid, Spangler was inebriated with Swinburne, Wilde, Nietzsche. Now he is slick, in analysis, still a bit cowed by Corde, and at the same time vindictive...
Alas for his peace and quiet, he has a boyhood chum named Stoltz, a hustler determined to remobilize his old pal. He personally dices vegetables in order to provide Oblomov with an energizing diet...
...Blacks in the film are ridiculously stereotyped; Toomer, known as a "boy," even to young Meechum, who is portrayed as one of Toomer's closest friends; Toomer's mother, an enormous Black woman who loves her job as a maid, and is obsequious in her gratitude toward Mee chum for going out late one night to help Toomer defend himself against some local budding Klansmen. Carlino destroys the impact of the protest against the treatment of Blacks by portraying the grateful nigger, grateful to the white men who have made him a present of his inalienable rights...
...time, Boyce later claimed, he was disillusioned with the U.S. because of the Viet Nam War, Watergate and what he learned of the CIA's activities. To get back at the U.S., said Boyce, he worked out a plot with Andrew Daulton Lee, 27, a teen-age chum from the affluent Southern California town of Palos Verdes who had been convicted of drug dealing and was then on the run. The two schemed to supply top secret material to an agent in the Soviet Union's Mexico City embassy...