Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate is often intense. After three hours, a participant comes out, grim-faced, to make a phone call. "Hell," he mutters to himself, "if Schlesinger does what he wants to do, I'll never be able to go to Texas again in my life." Frank Moore emerges, calls his secretary and asks her to send up "one of those little blue pills in my desk." A few moments later Watson is out to ask for aspirin...
...dinner ends. Carter returns to his study. His secretary has gone home. His press staff, Frank Moore and Ham Jordan, are drinking beer and discussing the energy meeting in Jody Powell's office. It is shortly after midnight when Carter leaves the study. He carefully turns out the lights...
...change in execution methods is exemplified by February's killing of Mafia Consigliere Frank ("Bomp") Bompensiero, 71. Shortly before 8 p.m. on Feb. 10, Bomp walked from his San Diego home to a nearby public telephone booth, which he used as an office in order to avoid wiretaps. In his pocket was a notebook containing coded balance sheets of loan-shark usury payments and lists of coded phone numbers. The numbers turned out to be those of other public telephones scattered through California and Nevada. The phones constitute a West Coast Mafia hot-line system...
...Frank Chin, 48, professional wiretapper gunned down with six bullets to the head in a New York City apartment building Jan. 20. Also a potential state's witness against the Mob, Chin (TIME, Feb. 21) had been hired by DiGilio to screen the gangster's offices for police eavesdropping devices...
...There was no rudeness, none at all. The discussions were businesslike and frank. General Secretary [Leonid] Brezhnev said he intended to be frank, and I said I appreciated that and would be frank too. I found him courteous and straightforward...