Word: got
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Raab admits that he and Brady have never got along. Brady, he says, has treated the drug issue as a "bother" and has hardly discussed it with him. A spokesman for Brady counters that "Mr. Von Raab's judgment may be affected by the decision to appoint a new Customs commissioner...
...Raab is not without allies. Bennett says admiringly that his "style is often imperfect, but the substance is on target." An official at the Drug Enforcement Administration who has sparred bitterly with Von Raab on turf issues says, nonetheless, "You've got to hand it to him. Willy has guts...
...wrote about in 1946, where you could leave the Stork Club at 2 a.m. and take the subway home." Whyte concedes that he has no plan to solve the litany of urban problems, but he denies he is a dreamer. "I am an anti-Utopian," he says. "We've got a lot of problems in New York that are not going to be solved by having nicer parks. I speak with no sentiment at all. I am very scared of the city. I've been mugged twice...
...then, go on living in Manhattan, as he has done for decades? "You've got to be crazy to live in Manhattan," Whyte concludes. Crazy about cities...
When my parents got on the phone, I told them I had stared death in the face...