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Word: donning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Agnew personally is a talkative, gregarious and kindly man, but he keeps slipping unwittingly into crudity. As when he branded the Baltimore Sun's Gene Oishi "the fat Jap" during the campaign. Or when he told a Chicago press conference: "When I am moving in a crowd, I don't...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SPIRO AGNEW: THE KING'S TASTER | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

He is defensive about the press. "Now it seems to be fashionable to make out Agnew to be some kind of goof," he tells friends. "I don't think I'm a brain. I've got an I.Q. of about 135 when it was last tested. I think that's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: SPIRO AGNEW: THE KING'S TASTER | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

Coup Rumors. The contest for South Viet Nam could also be lost on the political front. Last week Saigon was once again alive with talk of a coup. The speculation started when South Vietnamese Senator Tran Van Don invited some 300 Vietnamese to his home in Saigon's Cholon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A SIGH OF RELIEF IN SAIGON | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

People who had not talked with each other all evening introduced themselves and immediately befriended whoever was sitting near them. A scrawny boy named Cliff was sitting in front of me holding onto my feet. After telling me twice that he came from Maine but had been living in D.C...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Washington After Dark | 11/13/1969 | See Source »

There was a marked division of opinion between those people sitting at the feet of the troops and those standing in the back. When it was suggested that a tactical withdrawal might at least be considered, all those at the rear were for sticking it out. "It's easy for...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Washington After Dark | 11/13/1969 | See Source »

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