Word: direst
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...songs of his father fill Cooney's conversations with strangers. His dearest recollections and direst regrets are open to everyone. In a conflict of stubborn wills, Gerry moved away from home at 18. "When I heard how he had gone around calling me 'my son, the fighter,' and how proud it turns out he really was of me, that really hurt, you know?" When he fell ill with cancer, Tony bought himself a motorcycle and made lonely journeys to Montauk, at the far end of Long Island, to look out at the sea. "What did he think...
...fulfilled the direst predictions of its critics. A Washington Post story last week reported that many departing Carter officials are having no trouble finding firms willing to quadruple their salaries in order to tap their expertise, despite the revolving-door strictures, which went into effect in 1979. The Reagan team, too, has found that for Cabinet appointees the prestige outweighs the financial burdens. The only person known to have refused a top job solely because of a potential conflict was Clifford Hansen, Reagan's first choice for Interior Secretary, whose family holds grazing rights on federal lands. Such...