Word: cookerâ
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...reason is its high degree of specialization. Traditional capitals?London, Paris, Rome, Vienna?are centers of culture and commerce as well as government?filled with sensuous temptations and enticements to dalliance. The Washington ambience, by contrast, is a political pressure cooker???almost devoid of the soft lights and shadowed corners where small intimacies can flower into intimacy. It is slightly nerve-racking to be close to a man whose electronic "beeper" may go off any second to warn him that he is wanted at the White House; and those black overstuffed sofas in the offices on the Hill...
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