Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...explains why she abandoned her plan to move to a hotel: "I like to be with my own things. Besides, the duke wanted me to go on this way." Another reason is her reluctance to disband her staff of 17 servants. Still another factor: Black Diamond and Gin-Seng, the last of the dynasty of pug dogs who pranced about the Windsors in a thousand news photos. "We are all happier here, and safer than in a hotel," says the duchess. "I have always been timid," she admits. "Thunderstorms frighten me, and I won't travel in planes...
...Melvin H. Evans, 56, of the Vir gin Islands, a former physician and a Republican who was appointed to of fice by President Nixon before winning the islands' first gubernatorial election...
...long had our problems," Riggs says of Priscilla. "My wife thought I ought to spend more time looking after my family instead of playing gin and hustling golf and tennis. She didn't think it was dignified. Once she made me go to a psychiatrist to try to cure me of my addiction, but after a couple of sessions I had him flicking cards into a hat. Then we spent time playing gin rummy...
...temperate Baker drinks only an occasional gin and tonic and tolerates neither profanity nor off-color humor. During the hearings he has dieted off 25 lbs. and now weighs a trim 155. He plays golf and tennis avidly and frequently canoes on the Little Tennessee River or hikes in the nearby hills. His favorite pastime, however, is photography, and both his $150,000 rambling home in tiny Huntsville, Tenn...
...next day was more of the same -more delays, more downpours, another frustrating postponement. Fans meandered about in the mud, bored and, in some cases, broke. The drivers passed the time tossing Frisbees in Gasoline Alley, starting impromptu soccer games and playing gin rummy...