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Word: guess (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, by Dale Wasserman, is still playing in Boston, and it's probably still as exciting as ever. It's about an inmate rebellion in a lunatic asylum, I guess, but it's got enough jokes and high drama and Christ symbolism and whatnot to hold your interest even if that doesn't immediately exalt you 7:30' at the Charles Playhouse in Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: stage | 2/7/1974 | See Source »

...impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson in his personal congressional library of 6,000 volumes - no fewer than 65 of them deal with impeachment - that he has painstakingly collected over the years. "But there is no substitute for eyeball-to-eyeball discussion," he says. "If you try to guess what's going on in Congress while you sit at your desk, youll always be wrong." Several years ago, following his no-guess philosophy to the limit for a cover story on the late Everett Dirksen, MacNeil asked the Illinois Senator to empty his pockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 4, 1974 | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...Capitol Hill and the Senate hearing produced many sharp clashes. Jackson, who is campaigning hard for the Democratic presidential nomination, took advantage of the inept performance of Exxon Vice President Roy A. Baze. When Baze could not recall the size of Exxon's 1972 dividends, Jackson snapped: "I guess we're going to have to start slapping subpoenas on some of you." Then, in a grandstand play, Jackson phoned a stockbroker and announced that the dividend was $3.80 a share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLICY: Oil Profits Under Fire | 2/4/1974 | See Source »

...might not respect him. And then I end up helping Teddy shave. Figuratively speaking. But you can see that it is still confusing. I mean, why should they write me a plea for financial support so I can help them make sure I will always need it myself? I guess I'll just have to leave that for M. Stanton to figure out. Maybe I should leave the whole thing...

Author: By Ellen A. Cooper, | Title: Flash of Hindsight | 2/1/1974 | See Source »

...that Charlie could talk about Jesus only as a teacher. No more of this talking about him as the Lord. We don't want to offend "our Jewish students." That really ticked old Charlie off. He even stopped trying to convert me after that--I guess he figured all I had coming to me was hell fire and damnation...

Author: By Dale S. Russakoff, | Title: Over Hill, Over Dale | 1/30/1974 | See Source »

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