Word: garden
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken too much mescaline too soon and, as he watched Mick Jagger prance around the stage at Boston Garden, he thought he was either seeing God or on the verge of a nervous breakdown. There was a moment at the brink of the abyss, but then he decided in favor of God and pulled himself together. Like nearly everyone else...
Getting to Radcliffe from Harvard Square was the first problem. We walked, my parents and I, for what seemed like miles, asking directions from dozens of-long-haired girls on bicycles; we followed that goddamned brick wall down Garden St. only to get lost again. I now suspect my parents were as helpless as 1: Harvard Square is a far cry from Long Island, still farther from the Bronx. But we made it late; we made it to Radcliffe Yard, and collapsed in the waiting room of the Dean of Admissions. We made it to the Waiting Room and waited...
...having been prevented by public outcry from using nuclear weapons in Southeast Asia, did indeed use them in Latin America (claiming, of course, that to do so would save lives and shorten the war). So most of us are dead-to all intents and purposes... What a garden-spot this planet could have been...
Dead or Alive. Connally's faltering was not all his own fault. He was led down the garden path by Wilbur Mills, a longstanding opponent of the revenue-sharing concept. Mills is determined to discredit Nixon's economic policies and -if possible-kill the revenue-sharing plan forever. This is a matter of not only political philosophy and party loyalty, but also presidential ambition as well. Mills wants to see the Democrats defeat Nixon in 1972; he is also beginning to think that he may be the man to do it. Mills is now taking his presidential candidacy...
...overall $1,140,000 allotted annually, $444,000 goes for household salaries (319 full-time employees ranging from footmen to curators in the Royal Collections); $292,320 for household expenses (five royal palaces-Buckingham, Windsor, St. James's, Kensington and Holyrood-house-plus royal receptions and garden parties); $31,680 for the Royal Bounty, a fund from which the Queen contributes to charity; plus a $144,000 Privy Purse or salary from which she pays her personal expenses...