Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that moment, on the left side of the television screen, another Marine, Oliver North, leaned forward in the witness chair in the Senate Caucus Room, listening, his eyes gone now from disingenuous to wounded, then brightening to a righteous glint...
...more comfortable talking to colleagues by computer messages than face-to-face. Indeed, it was his fondness for electronic conversation that created many of the memos he will be grilled about this week. At home, his wife Linda has jokingly told a friend that she is looking forward to her husband's testimony "because I'll probably hear him say more words in a week than I've heard in 29 years of marriage...
Liman was expected to treat North as he had earlier witnesses, using a blend of relentless hammering and withering sarcasm. Instead he addressed the Marine calmly but sternly, pressing forward to expose the contradictions in North's answers. While some thought Liman may have been intimidated by North's popularity, others viewed the chief counsel's cross-examination as a cagey shift in strategy. Says one Liman associate: "By staying in low gear, he got more out of North in part of a day than ((House Counsel John Nields and George Van Cleve)) did in 2 1/2 days...
...Hellman arranged to have her ashes placed in a New York mortuary. But after Hellman's death three years ago, Parker's remains were moved to a safe in the Manhattan office of her executor, Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, who hoped that someone, possibly a distant relative, might step forward to collect them. O'Dwyer appealed to New York Daily News Columnist Liz Smith, who wrote about Parker's plight last week in her syndicated column. The result was a torrent of inquiries, including one from a wealthy Midwesterner who offered to inter Parker's remains on his country estate...
...undergo experimental brain surgery for Parkinson's at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. Last week some 500 medical researchers, gathered at a symposium sponsored by the University of Rochester in New York, watched a videotape of Follensbee in awed silence as she triumphantly, if tentatively, propelled herself forward. Says the patient, who still suffers from slight tremors: "I have hope where there was no hope before...