Word: closers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great successes on the basketball team of a local Baptist college. He'd had great offers from all over the Southeastern Conference but turned them down in favor of Samford in Birmingham. Then last summer I heard that Charlie had quit the team because he wanted to get closer...
...Peking seriously espousing such nonsense? Well, not exactly. The propagandists' real target, some Western observers speculated, was not Beethoven, Schubert, or even poor Mozart, but someone much closer at hand. Though Sinologists differed as to who the target might be, one school went so far as to speculate that it was none other than Chairman Mao's wife Chiang Ching, the self-anointed cultural overseer of the People's Republic. Chiang Ching had warmly welcomed the Western orchestras and had specifically asked the Philadelphia Orchestra to include Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, the "Pastoral," in its program...
...hero style, the steady shoulders and gruff speech, the way he follows his fate, the loner doing what must be done. He's like the old maid's dream boyfriend, daredevil to the world, all sweetness to her. No weaknesses, no fetishes, no perversities. You can't get much closer to Doris Dayland. This one's as straight as they come...
...your readers don't know that a patient-be-damned attitude exists within the medical profession, it is time they learned. I have been close enough to doctors to not want to get closer (respiratory trouble), and have come to view the American doctor in general as the most repugnant, money-grabbing and discourteous animal on the face of the earth...
...Federal Judge John J. Sirica. The tapes contain key conversations between the President and such former top aides as John Dean, John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman. Last week the White House decided not to release the summaries. The main reason was fear that the tapes might link the President closer to Watergate. Top White House aides readily admit that the tapes include "ambiguities" about the President's role...