Word: clues
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intertwined with those of his family that to do so would jeopardize their privacy. But he added that he would expect the family to understand if he made such disclosures as a candidate for national office. Thus, some saw in last week's move a significant clue to his intentions...
Clive dutifully livens his exposition by suggesting the obligatory sinister Victorian flaw. Macaulay, a lifelong bachelor, loved his younger sisters Margaret and Hannah more than a brother should. Working from this clue of psychological incest, Clive submits that Macaulay was a suppressed romantic, smoldering behind a mask of rationality. He even labors to make him a man of our time: asserting the intellectual capabilities and working performance of the black race, and defending the rights of Roman Catholics and Jews...
...Treasury, for contributions to the campaigns of unnamed politicians. Connally turned down the money twice. Jacobsen later told the Watergate grand jury that he left the money untouched in a safe-deposit box in the Citizens National Bank of Austin until last Nov. 27. The grand jury offered no clue as to what might have happened to the $10,000 but said that Jacobsen had lied, and indicted him for perjury. Last week he pleaded not guilty in Federal District Court in Washington...
...prepared for her. The most cheerful note came when Her Majesty intoned, "I have been able to end the state of emergency, which had existed since 13 November." Hardly more than a general outline of the new government's program, the speech nonetheless gave Britons their first clue as to how Wilson and his Labor Party plan to rule and retain power while holding only 301 of the House of Commons' 635 seats. Wilson's strategy is clear: he intends, at least initially, to emphasize safe, popular measures and give the 296 Tories, 14 Liberals...
...anthology of the author's work: "Most of the biographical sketches that deal with him are full of preposterous errors." Blotner's years of research, therefore, were spent in a noble cause. How, then, did things go so wrong? The author's foreword offers a clue to his-and much of modern biography's-ruling flaw. He has written, says Blotner, a biography of the works as well as the author, "since each element of them was in some sense a product of his total life." In short, whatever adds bulk to the "total life experience...