Word: devilment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Devil By The Tail...
Willowbrook became a state school for the mentally retarded soon after the end of the Second World War when it was converted from use as a military hospital. It is as much a school as Devil's Island was a correctional facility. Despite its fine sounding name, the Willowbrook State School is a place where 4500 retarded people are sent to wait around until they...
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...week of ardent speculation, even Agnew himself did not escape consideration as the source of the resignation reports. He might simply have been seeking opinions, in Nixon's own devil's-advocate style, from a colleague who mistook his manner. On Aug. 15 in Denver, Agnew asked Republican National Committeeman Bill Daniels pointblank whether he should resign. (Says Daniels: "My direct answer to him was that if you're guilty you've got a problem, but if you're innocent, I would fight it to my dying day.") Or the report could have stemmed from...
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