Word: cloth
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...danger that he would be dropped from the ticket. In his speech, he neglected to answer the charges directly, but informed a listening electorate, with quavering voice and moistened eye, that he was a virtual pauper, whose sole assets were a little dog named Checkers and his wife's cloth coat...
...grim row of sepia photographs forms the background. And a lectern, table and three chairs (all at severe right angles to each other) serve as the only furniture. The set's rigidity contrasts well with the informality of Atkins' movements and gestures, just as the bright green table cloth sets off her purple suit...
...cloth of chicanery continues to unravel. Among the developments last week: -- Stung by accusations of inertia, the Justice Department said a task force of 10 federal prosecutors was studying B.C.C.I. activities in Washington, Atlanta, Miami and Tampa. Subjects of the investigation will include U.S. politicians and other leaders suspected of receiving millions of dollars from B.C.C.I. in payoffs and bribes. Attorney General Dick Thornburgh, while denying charges of foot dragging, assured a House subcommittee that his & department has "committed all necessary resources to unraveling any violations of the United States federal and criminal laws and pursuing any evidence that exists...
...director of a Shell subsidiary developing anticancer drugs. Using his office computer, Collins wrote an invitation to a party for gay men, which accidentally came to his superior's attention. Four days later, Collins was fired. Judge Taber determined that Houston-based Shell "created out of whole cloth" a damning job report on Collins to conceal the real reason for the firing: "a homosexual is unacceptable to Shell's management." Shell may appeal...
Nixon seems to destroy himself every so often in order to keep fighting. Able to live without friends, but not without enemies, he needed Helen Gahagan Douglas, the cloth coat, the Checkers speech, the 1960 defeat -- and maybe even Watergate. It is not the desire to scale great heights that gets Nixon up in the morning and sends him to his New Jersey office, where he waits for the phone to ring and tries to peddle op-ed pieces on geopolitics; it is the need to claw his way out of a dark hole of his own digging...