Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Giving the Gift Away...
...signs. "I'm interested in signs a great deal right now, so I find that I do signs wherever I find them. I usually swipe them too. I've got a wonderful collection." Sometimes he would swipe two of the same sign to give to friends as a gift. He picked up post cards wherever he went and swapped them with friends as a boy trades baseball cards...
Money can be the greatest gift or the most terrible weapon in this society. The money that we gave to support these governments could have helped feed and school hungry children here at home and in other countries. It might have gone to inadequately staffed and supplied hospitals and schools or to those parts of the country where people receive virtually no medical care...
When a federal grand jury and the Senate Watergate committee learned of the gift, Jacobsen said, he and Connally agreed that they would say the money never left Jacobsen's safe-deposit box in an Austin, Texas, bank. In fact, they both testified before the grand jury and the Senate committee that Jacobsen offered the money to Connally for him to dispense to political candidates as he saw fit, but that Connally turned him down-a story that Connally has stuck to throughout. Jacobsen told the court that it was false. Rather, said Jacobsen, Connally gave...
...like the Ivy League Championship all over again. Except it was no big surprise. The Greater Boston Championship is traditionally Middlesex County's gift to Crimson golfers' egos, and Bicentennial week at Concord is no time to break with tradition...