Word: confidante
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Earlier in the week, Thieu, a Roman Catholic convert, had tried to appease his opponents by firing the notoriously corrupt commanders of three of the country's four military "corps." Among those busted was General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, of IV Corps (the Mekong Delta), who has long been suspected...
Does anyone in fact really care any more? Brad Darrach surely does, and so will the readers of his fast, funny account of the Great Airport Caper and other misadventures of the Brooklyn bad boy. Darrach, who became Fischer's confidant while covering his matches for LIFE, offers many...
The priests also accused the mother of freewheeling Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, a cousin of the President's and his closest confidant, of profiteering in sales of subsidized rice in the largely barren central coast. Police roughed up some of the Hue demonstrators, but to avoid triggering...
Such is the frenetic working pace -and enormous influence over the President-of Robert Trowbridge Hartmann, 57, Ford's chief speechwriter, political adviser, troubleshooter and confidant. Other White House intimates regard the conservative Hartmann as Ford's most trusted Counsellor. "The President knows that Bob is smarter than...
To Ellery Queen, it is the very inimitability of the master-hardly a Holmesian exists who has not mentally attempted to compose a further adventure of the world's first consulting detective. To Critic Edmund Wilson, it is "the wit and fairy-tale poetry of hansom cabs, gloomy London...