Word: feds
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...executive decided that the sound and fury did indeed signify nothing. Al Flanagan, station manager of NBC's Atlanta affiliate, WXIA, cut away from the network coverage to air a 1972 movie, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean. Said Flanagan: "The election was being force-fed to viewers...
...fact, when you think about it, poor Cintra must have been just about fed up with all that New Jersey school talk, since she's gone and hurried off into the legal assistant business in Philadelphia...
...November 1973: "One or more of the [White House] tapes contained deliberate erasures." Others in a position to know were Nixon, his secretary Rose Mary Woods and White House Aides Stephen Bull and the late J. Fred Buzhardt. Haig had access to all the other information that Deep Throat fed or confirmed to Woodward, Dean claims. According to Dean, Haig probably would have been available for all the meetings described by Woodward in All the President's Men, with one noteworthy exception; Haig's "character" fits that of Deep Throat; and Haig probably, though not certainly...
...Review's inflammatory tone suggests that the editors seek to be agents provocateurs. Fed up at last, Dartmouth's faculty of arts and sciences voted, 113 to 5, to "deplore the abuses of responsible journalism that have been a regular practice of the Dartmouth Review." College President David McLaughlin concurred. "Free expression is not a privilege, but a fundamental right," he said. "When freedom of expression is used relentlessly to attack the integrity of individuals or segments of the community, it tests to the utmost our commitment to this right...
American slang is fed by many tributaries. Feminists are busy networking-the liberated version of using the old-boy network. Cops, as sardonic with language as criminals are, refer to a gunshot wound in the head as a serious headache. Drug users have their codes, but they seem to have lost some of their glamour. Certain drugs have a fatality about them that cannot be concealed in jaunty language. The comedian Richard Pryor introduced the outer world to freebasing a couple of years ago, and John Belushi died after he speed-balled (mixed heroin and cocaine). Punk language has made...