Word: firsthand
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Russians blamed the Nazis for these atrocities, but as an officer in the Polish underground then, I received firsthand, from Red Cross investigators on-the-spot information-later corroborated by a U.S. congressional committee-that the massacre had in fact been perpetrated by the Soviets. It is noteworthy that in the Nuremberg trials, Nazi leaders, at Soviet insistence, were accused of the murders, and despite the presence of a Soviet judge on the tribunal, they were never convicted...
George F. Will, 33. Tired of teaching politics, Will went to Washington in 1970 to watch the workings of government firsthand. He was an obscure Congressional aide until two years ago, when he signed on as Washington editor of National Review. He started a column in the Washington Post soon afterward, and almost overnight his perceptive political commentary made him a leader of conservative opinion. A native of Champaign, Ill., he studied at Trinity, Oxford and Princeton, and taught at Michigan State and the universities of Illinois and Toronto. Among the first conservative leaders to break with President Nixon, Will...
...later to become a fugitive from federal prosecution. The story called the development a "new bombshell." In fact, the source was the fallen financier, Bernard Cornfeld, a Vesco enemy fresh out of jail himself. His account lacked proof that the meeting had taken place; even Cornfeld did not claim firsthand knowledge of it. The New York Times last January front-paged a long piece revealing an investigation into the possibility that Bahamian gambling money had found its way into the Nixon campaign kitty. The article was crammed with suspicious names and impressive figures, but no proof of wrongdoing had been...
...felt the way Burns did. In the early 1700s most of them migrated to the American colonies, bringing their whisky-making tools and techniques with them. By 1750, moonshine was a necessity of life on the frontier, and brewing corn whisky was a major industry. From fusty books and firsthand interviews with oldtimers, with many facts and much affection, Joseph Dabney has put together a splendid and often hilarious history...
...students who arrived on the sprawling campus on the northwestern outskirts of Peking last fall were an enthusiastic if diverse group. They talked eagerly of getting to know the Chinese and of "experiencing the revolution firsthand." Some even donned the standard Chinese work blues as a sign of unity with their hosts. There was good reason for their excitement. They were the first foreigners to be admitted to the Peking Language Institute since it was closed because of the Cultural Revolution...