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...Mahal is non-stop energy. When he sings, his body is constantly in motion: his head bobs from side to side: his eyebrows leap up and down; his hips grind rhythmically; his foot stomps and his facial expressions never stop changing. If he's not accompanying himself with his Mississippi National steel-bodied acoustic guitar, then he'll play the piano or banjo or mandolin of kalimba or maracas or Spirit of '76 Fife. His raspy voice sometimes turns lyrics into a stammer reminiscent of Otis Redding. At other times, words are replaced altogether by suggestive mumbles or a bent...
Lindbergh, on the other hand, always had an ax to grind, and made sure his analysis of, say, air force developments in Europe, conformed with his position that Germany could not of the war. Upon his return to the United States from Europe in 1938. Lindbergh told everyone who would be futile, that German air strength made war over the Sudeten crisis a non-viable proposition for England, France, and Russia. He endorsed the appeasement at Munich that ceded Czech territory to Germany, and paved the way for the occupation of Czechoslovakia the following year. Cole says that there...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci, who sponsored the task force proposal, said the change would ensure that decisions on Harvard Square planning "would not be left to a handful of people with an axe to grind or a personal interest in development...
...calls home a new $300,000 house bordering the tenth green at the Silverado Country Club in Napa, Calif. He met his wife Linda while attending Brigham Young University on a golf scholarship, and says that he prefers weekends at home with her and their three children to the grind of the tour...
...nervous, though tentative worry began to build as Ford flew on. It was that the President, just like Nixon, was finding international junketeering far more pleasurable than the grind in the Oval Office. Perhaps he was beginning to succumb to the illusion that he could outrace domestic difficulties and bring home enough of the foreign huzzahsto dispel the leadership malaise...