Word: footings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through Agnew they can get what Wallace promises, but without Wallace. Nixon's lieutenants deny the charge, but one of them demonstrates how the two men are viewed in the Nixon camp: "Nixon is going to do the big thing. He's the knight, and this guy is the foot soldier...
...Portland, Ore., the building that once housed the headquarters of Eu gene McCarthy's volunteers is now the campaign headquarters for Nixon and Agnew. Directly across the street is the Humphrey-Muskie headquarters, a 70-foot walk for any dispossessed McCarthyites in search of a cause. But last week, in Portland and across the na tion, few were taking the stroll...
...walking tour of the yard found most freshmen plugged in. And a call that got through to the telephone business office after five busy signals won the promise of a black one with a nine foot extension cord in five days...
...vintage clothes and preferred suspenders to belts. The Bulgarian representative, exiled in Paris for the past three decades, had the same reply to virtually every motion. "Bulgarie I'accepte!" he roared in what sounded almost like French. "We can no longer brook Vatican pacifism, no longer kiss the foot of the Pope. Neither can we submit to the imperialism of Soviet Russia...
...example, Holden got word that a circumcision rite would take place at a nearby encampment of Samburu warriors. Rousing his men at 4 a.m., he led them on foot through several miles of country overrun with predators. The crew arrived in time to catch the Samburus reeling into a catatonic frenzy. Then the tribal elder drew his knife. The cameraman closed in so tight that he got blood on his camera. And Bill Holden, who, as one Wolper man put it, had played it all along like "the essential Hemingway man," admitted that suddenly he grew "weak in the knees...