Word: donee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...elite club of profs there who played a game which amounted to counting the number of times each participant was mentioned in the press on a given week. While serving on the Court, he spent much of his time at the White House, advising Johnson just as he had done before becoming a justice. Fortas knew deep down that such a bending of the doctrine of separation of powers was not right, and though he never made such an admission, his omissions on the subject before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings show his own doubts...
...That was stupid on our part. They shouldn'thave done that," Stelzer said. "Taking the moneydoesn't offend me at all, but using their pressservices was silly. The appearance of impropriety[by using Apache and Mitchell's press offices] wasjust silly...
...back on her travel and free- lance good deeds. "I used to take every phone call from a guy who said he would jump off a building if I didn't talk to him. But I no longer feel compelled to aid every crazy. For two years I have done everything everyone asked me to do. I am now officially exhausted." And unofficially still barreling ahead...
...Canyonlands of Utah, where trails stretch for miles through spectacular rock formations. The crowds are growing so fast that park officials have had to enact a reservations-only system for the area's campsites. "It's hot and dusty, but it's the most spectacular riding I've ever done," says Doug Emerson of Boulder. "You expect a dinosaur or John Wayne and a bunch of bandits to come out from behind the rocks...
Tears well up in Joy's eyes as she stands at the pulpit one Sunday evening offering testimony to all that God has done for her family. David sits in the pew behind Nancy, combing his sister's curly blond hair, inattentive to his mother's preaching. Nancy blows bubbles with thick pink gum. Stephen lies across a nearby pew, asleep. "Boring," Nancy says. Only David stands with his father to sing the final hymn...