Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the executions, Lieut. General Olusegun Obasanjo, who took over the government of Black Africa's largest and richest country after the killing of Murtala, made good on his promise to dole out military justice to those found guilty. Surprisingly, one of the executed officers was former Defense Minister I.D. Bisalla, who had helped bring Murtala to power in an earlier, successful coup last July. Bisalla and many of the others were apparently implicated in the plot by Lieut. Colonel B.S. Dimka, the man who led the Feb. 13 overthrow attempt. Dimka managed to stay at large for three...
...aide to Nixon in charge of personnel management and later moved on to the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) as deputy director after the Watergate break-in. During this time he organized and ran the Nixon "responsiveness program," which reputedly worked through Federal departments to dole out White House favors and punish White House enemies in legally questionable ways...
...bank does go under before it can be rescued, the FDIC dispatches liquidators to go over the books and physically man tellers' stations to dole out money to depositors. Usually they are handing out money four or five days after the bank has closed...
...permanent dole. They have few, if any, easily exploitable resources to sell abroad, and most are seemingly unable to grow enough food to feed themselves. The most notable catastrophe countries are Mali, Chad, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda and Bangladesh...
Engaged. Robert J. Dole, 52, witty Republican Senator from Kansas and onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee; and Mary Elizabeth Hanford, 38, sole woman member of the Federal Trade Commission. Hanford's striking good looks and Harvard law degree once prompted White House Consumer Affairs Adviser Virginia Knauer to describe her as an example of deceptive packaging. Dole, who narrowly won re-election in 1974, convinced voters that he had been unfairly besmirched by Watergate: he appeared in TV ads with mud on his face...