Word: friend
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tardy. Even people who really admire and sustain Carter believe he is hanging by a slender political thread. With a provident combination of luck, hard work and fervent prayer, the President may, in the words of a friend, "just make it" back into office...
...finished his second term, the couple retired to a farm in Gettysburg, Pa., near the battlefield. After Ike's death in 1969, Mamie withdrew even further from the public eye. Asked last summer how she would like to be remembered by Americans, Mamie replied, as "just a good friend...
...Around 4 p.m., the general turned up at the KCIA building. Park at this point abruptly invited himself to dinner with Kim. The President showed up two hours later at the KCIA building with Cha and his chief of staff, Kim Kae Won, who was known to be a friend of the intelligence chief but whose own role in the events remains mysterious. Thus because of his planned appointment with the KCIA boss, Chung happened to be in the building when the Shootout and killings took place...
Promised anonymity, the doctors were often startlingly frank. One, asked about a colleague who was also a close personal friend, replied: "He just isn't top rank." Remarked a specialist of another: "I wouldn't take my dog to that quack." But the doctors were generous in their praise of other colleagues. The result is a book that lists the names and addresses of top-ranked physicians in specialties ranging from allergies to vascular disease and-as a bonus-throws in the names and locations of leading hospitals, clinics and specialty centers...
Hughes, who has worked in the theater for 45 years, said he "stumbled into it. I was dared to go into the theater." He said when he was 19 he saw a production of "Hamlet" with two bad actors. He told a friend. "If I can't act better than those two. I'd better give up." The friend got a friend to hear Hughes read, and hired him to play a one-line role in Frank Lee Short's production of "The Taming of the Shrew...