Word: erwin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spectacle of Watergate unfolded before our eyes two years ago--in court appearances, press conferences and Congressional committee investigations--it was gripping enough to require no dramatization. With the cynicism of hindsight, we may realize now that Sam Erwin was a bucket of North Carolina hogwash and John Sirica less than a man on a white horse and Sam Dash far from the best lawyer around. But at the time, events needed neither the sugaring of attractive personalities like Dustin Hoffman's nor the spicing of palace corrider gossip such as we taste in The Final Days...
...Alamein in North Africa that Montgomery became a national hero, and the controversy over his talents began. Leading the battered British Eighth Army, Montgomery pushed the Afrika Korps of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the vaunted "Desert Fox," out of Egypt and into full retreat to Tunisia-where the Germans ran into Eisenhower's North African forces. El Alamein sent the British into ecstasy. "Before it," said Winston Churchill of the famous battle, "there were no victories; after it, there were no defeats...
Though the tax base has been growing at 5% a year, the city still has had to postpone about $30 million in capital expenditures-including street improvements-to avoid layoffs or cuts in public services this year. City Administrative Officer C. Erwin Piper predicts that to balance its budget next year Los Angeles will either have to trim some services or raise property taxes again; they went up nearly 10% in August...
...Erwin Glikes, her editor at Basic, a division of Harper and Row, Inc., expressed bitterness about the switch. He charged that Kearns was being "hurt and badly used" by Goodwin. The suit from Glikes's publishing house is still unresolved, he said, and the lawyers for each side have just begun to discuss...
...office with a German publisher, and she called back. So I excused myself, and I got on the phone, and I said, Doris, I'm very glad and grateful that you called but I just want to say. I don't understand why you did this.' Her answer was, 'Erwin, you don't understand; there's a great deal of money involved...as much as a quarter of a million dollars.'" Glikes was speaking in a very deliberate and measured voice, and when I asked him if he was reading the whole dialogue back, he bridled. "No, no--I remember...