Word: edwin
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...through solecisms and wail eloquently that the numbers of those who understand the English language are vanishing like the Mayas or Hittites. Droves of purists can be seen shuddering on every street corner when the word hopefully is misused. Their chairman of the board is NBC-TV's Edwin Newman, their chief executive officer the New York Times's William Safire. One author, the late Jean Stafford, had a sign on her back door threatening "humiliation" to anyone who misused hopefully in her house...
...Tokyo, at first could not believe. But as they sifted and sorted through the millions of bits of data that are automatically collected and stored by computers, the chilling conclusion became more and more inescapable, and they notified Washington. Finally, at 7:10 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time, Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese put in an urgent call to Ronald Reagan, who was vacationing at his ranch in the hills near Santa Barbara, Calif. The mystery of a missing South Korean jetliner that had strayed over Soviet territory, said Meese, had been solved: 17 hours earlier Korean Air Lines Flight...
...found allies in the women's movement. "This is the Munchkin with the Wizard of Oz," she said, holding up a dignified picture of herself at the White House with the President. And to set the record straight, she said that Ursula Meese, wife of Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese, had been the Easter Bunny at the egg roll. So she had; Honegger's turn as a bunny was in a staff picture taken to cheer Press Secretary James Brady after he was shot during the assassination attempt on Reagan...
...Edwin L. Feibelman Jr. Walla Walla, Wash...
...which would have been shortly before the October 1980 debate, is unambiguous. Casey has just as steadfastly stuck by his denials during his two interviews with FBI agents. The bureau is also looking into the roles played in the affair by Budget Director David Stockman and White House Aides Edwin Meese and David Gergen...